For 067 - prompt: shade
42. Promise
Shademon simmers. Eating despair is not difficult when the food source constantly has it in high supply. growing is easy.
It is also boring. Sadness is easy. You can find sadness in everything. Misery is a blame game. Shademon chews it slowly. Misery is bloating. It sits and sits until you grow tired of it or it digests away.
What do other emotions taste like? What does love taste like?
Nene never lets them eat love. She holds it tight to her chest, even while it bleeds out.
What does hope taste like? What does the future taste like?
Shademon may never know.