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t see him or hear him She smelled him

He smelled like…like fish Her stomach rumbled and her mouth watered

“Who’s there?” she dehtened

Bug appeared slowly He eround of Mose’s shabby room

“What do you want?” Orsay de now that she kneas him The s like a hungry dog

“I need you to do so said

“Did Caine send you?”

Bug hesitated He glanced aside and for a few seconds faded into the background again Then he reappeared His face isted into a very un-Bug-like expression of deter that so “They have fish”

“I can smell it,” Orsay whimpered

“I brought so said

Orsay felt like she ht faint “Can I have it?”

“First you have to promise you’ll do what I say”

Orsay knew Bug was a little creep Who knehat he would want her to do? But she also knew she wasn’t going to resist There was just about nothing she wouldn’t do for food Fish would be much,

“What do I have to do?” Orsay asked

“We have to take a walk Then you have to do your thing There’s some, like, creature or whatever They want you to watch its dreams See what it wants”