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Emilia shivers, clawing at her cheeks.

Emilia: "Master... Hungry... So hungry..."

The others can't help but agree. It's been far too long since they had anything substantial to eat. Curie seems to be completely out of it, and Peggy... Peggy is paler than usual, and not moving around. Her arms hang limply around Klimt's shoulders.

The group starts following the workers from a distance. Rosa notes they're mostly in a state of disrepair, and seem to have their mouths sewn shut, as well as several round scars on their torsos. As they walk, one of them falls, its legs splitting into bloody chunks seemingly by themselves. The other zombies stop for a moment, then help the fallen one as it drags itself to the edge of the pit, then jumps in. The beasts are upon the corpse in seconds, devouring it before the others even had the chance to throw the severed feet in after it.

There is a set of double doors on the far end of the room, large enough for the car to pass through, and the zombies seem to be walking toward it. Beside the opening, there is a sharp, pointed metal pipe at waist height, connected to a rusty valve. The undead line up in front of it, then systematically stab their torsos with it, opening the valve for a few seconds. They then leave with the cart one again, a red slurry dripping from their recent wounds.

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Rosa approaches the pipe, still dripping from being recently used. A few maggots and larvae crawl around the outside, and she makes an effort to avoid them as she scoops a bit of the red good with her finger, then touches it to the tip of her tongue.

Meat. Fresh meat. Blood, bone meal.

Life.

Her stomach begins growling and she can't help but salivate. Even in this absurdly unsanitary place, it tastes delicious.

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Klimt smears a bit of meat on Peggy's lips. She slowly moves her tongue to lick it, not breathing at all.

Curie approaches the pipe, looks at it for a few moments, then speaks in a monotone, machine-like voice. More monotone than usual, that is.

Curie: "Unit. Requires assistance. No arms."

Eigla stands guard while the others mess about with the food source, but thankfully no zombies seem to approach.


Emilia wordlessly walks up to the pipe, standing straight in front of it like the zombies did. She suddenly thrusts forwards, stabbing herself in the stomach, then grips the valve with both hands, opening it for several seconds. Blood begins to spew from her mouth, though you're not sure if it's her own or just the slurry overflowing her system. When she's done, she closes the valve up and falls backwards, leaking from her wound and twitching erratically.

Oh dear.

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Rosa places Curie in front of the pipe, and lets a slow trickle of the slurry fall down into the doll's open mouth. She now realises the larvae were not only living on the outside of the pipe, but seem to be a major component of the mixture, wriggling inside Curie's mouth before being chewed. Oh dear.

When the braingirl has had her fill, Rosa shuts off the valve, then uses her hand to clean the large amounts of goop that had spilled on the doll's face, gently putting it onto Peggy's open mouth. She stirs and swallows a bit, looking less pale than before.

It finally comes the time to try some herself. Rosa worriedly kneels in front of the pipe, carefully wrapping her lips around it while avoiding the sharp edges, then turns the valve open.

*delicious*

It takes all of her effort to shut the flow off before choking. Disgusting as it may be, the slurry is exactly what her body yearned for. She feels like she could keep sucking on it for hours, and, to her horror, actually finds herself enjoying feeling the maggots popping in her mouth as she chews.



Klimt holds Emilia as she gags and chokes, eyes rolling over in her seizure. After a few minutes, she seems to calm down, and looks at him with a semblance of sanity again. She tries to speak, still drooling profuse amounts of blood and goo.

Emilia: "It... It said I couldn't use my mouth..."