“ Dar. . Ling girl? ” She crawls after her on all fours. “ Yes. Eat. More more more. ”

She just continues to follow after, occasionally stopping to stare in the direction of noises off in the woods. “ How. Do. . . ” She doesn’t quite understand.

!!!! She immediately sits. Like a trained dog.

“ Can. . . Do. . . ” She mumbles, before her skin shimmers, and suddenly, she is a cat as well! Although, she is a calico. “ Meow! ” She sounds more like a parrot than a cat however.

“ . . . All. ” She shifts into a chicken, a boa constrictor, a german shepherd, a cow, a crab, a velociraptor, then finally a cockatrice before back into a cat. “ All. ” She chirps a second time.

She reaches out and snatches it, the ends of her fingered were blackened and sharp, like ravens talons. She scurried a few feet away before beginning to eat—.

. . . Food?

. . . She approaches. Patting the top of it before jumping back. Leaving a few feathers behind.

. . . She crawls back a little bit more. . . . Staring. A bright array of feathers grow from her body, a large plume of them popping up from the back of her head beneath her hair. Trying to mimic her colours.

She lowers her head, holding it close to the ground. Her feathers changing colours, again mimicking the others colours. SQUAWK!

. . . She makes a few mewling noises, holding her body even closer to the ground. Feathers slowly lowering and folding down, resting like a cloak on top of herself.

Vomits on your shoes.

ᅠᅠᅠ 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 . . . 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈﹖ 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖘. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐭. ᅠᅠᅠ

Katsu is seated on the edge of a pier, tinkering with his bronze-coloured mechanical arm. Rain pours heavily down onto his back, though he doesn’t mind, his hair is hydrophobic and his skin is like a sharks.

He’s pushed a sinking tour boat back to shore. Dumb humans can’t breathe underwater. At least they seemed great full. Someone took a few photos, now the newspapers are calling him Shark-Man.

— ❛ 𝐈𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐞. 𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞. ❜ —

Nightmares, again. All of his old comrades, all of his old enemies. All dragging him to Hell. His brothers and his sister.

Folding his mechanical hand upwards, a fierce blaze erupted from the wrist of Katsu’s prosthetic arm. The spider-bots internal circuitry was melted in an instant, turning it into nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.

— 〝 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐎𝐫 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞. 〞 —