Title: Delicious
Word Count: 122
Summary: let me tell you a tale of an eater-of-flesh
Challenge: #80 - Ravenous
Author's Note: These drabbles aren't in any particular order, but most of them were written for challenges on the avatar100 community on LiveJournal. If they were, they'll have the particular challenge mentioned.
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Ages ago, when the world was newer, an eater of flesh found his way into the spirit world to beg a boon from the old ones.
The old ones grew displeased with him after a time, and so he was cursed with a dreadful hunger.
They punished him for his lust for the flesh- forever, his terrible, insatiable need for skin and muscle and bone would consume him entirely, until there was nothing left of the man-who-had-once-been but the chitinous shell of the insects and his very, very red lips.
And there he waits in the silence, in the bones, for the flesh to come to him, because he is so very hungry.
And the beautiful, bloody lips curve into a smile.