[closed] Cannibals having lunch

[mother_earth]

Who: Argilla and Gale.
When: April 29th.
Where: Southern part of Tea.
Notes: A little lunch with former aggressors. Aka Gale and Argilla eat them so cannibalism abounds here sorry.

Bandits weren’t exactly familiar when they were attacked once in Tea. And oh how happy Argilla had been to have her feet on solid ground that didn’t rock with the motion of the ocean. It was soothing enough at night, making keeping a watch nearly impossible, but during the day it just served to remind her of how uncomfortable she was surrounded by so much water. The ground was so far away that she would be virtually useless with specialized jutsu if they were attacked. It made her nervous.

There was just one problem, the sea was ultimately safer than land. They weren’t off the boat more than a couple hours nor had they strayed very far from the shore before a small group of bandits made the worst mistake of their lives. Of course their mistake was good for them. It’d been some time since they’d last had a decent meal. And as much as it made Argilla’s stomach turn, she couldn’t deny that she was hungry and devouring them was much needed.

In the shade of a tree and no longer in her towering demon form, Argilla watches as Gale cuts up one of the corpses. Her stomach growls loudly in anticipation an echo to Prithivi’s chatter of how good that meat was going to taste and how good she was going to feel afterwards. She couldn’t be sure of the first part, but she couldn’t argue with the last. She would feel better after eating. Stronger and less like she could consume an entire large summon on her own never mind the needs of the rest of her tribe.

“How’s it coming?” She can’t bring herself to refer to the corpse as a person, it reminds her too much of those early days where she fasted out of some childish belief that she was above her hunger. That she wouldn’t suffer if she didn’t eat and she came so close to doing the exact same thing as Gale. If it hadn’t been for Sera...she glances at the body and hates how it makes her mouth water.

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[vitalfunction]

Gale had warned them, but they hadn't listened. He doesn't feel regret in what they've done, but he does feel uncomfortable cutting into the corpse with kunai instead of claws and teeth. It is the better option, because even though they are not on a worn path, there are obvious signs of this area being well-traveled, and their other forms would attract too much attention. Cutting up lunch like this is at least harder to see at a distance.

Butchering is hard work, but he's glad he had Argilla create a stone block with a depression in the middle for the purpose. The blood has collected and started to congeal, and while not as good as flesh, it helps, and he stops to lick gobs from his fingers more than once as he continues. By the time the legs and arms have been reduced down to piles of cut up meat and gristly bone, he's thoroughly splattered, and Gale would stop temporarily, but the heart is always a good part, so he cuts into the chest and pulls up a couple rips, splattering himself even more as they crack, and with careful precision cuts out the heart and on second thought, the liver too.

He nods at her question, and piles up the meat to take to her. "Enough to get started. We can butcher the rest when we're done with this."

He sits down close enough to feel her warmth against his shoulder and bites into a piece of heart. It's awful, but it's also delicious, and Vayu is a contented rumble in the back of his head as he chews and swallows.