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He hooked the sausage off her plate and beganhim

“Hmm—not bad, not bad,” he said with his mouth full as he continued to chew “Soht so—all the most primitive people live on the land instead of in the oceans”

“On my planet it’s considered unspeakably rude to steal food frootten over the sight of Lord Torrid’s twin turgid e as her next bite

“Really?” Oe world youant, we just take it What’s that?” he continued, i it into his mouth

“It’s a fungus,” Erows in animal feces” Which of course wasn’t strictly true, especially of et at theto shock the extre more polite

It didn’t work, however Ohtfully

“Hmm…I think I can taste a bit of that Gives it an earthy flavor,” he burbled “It must be a delicacy on your planet”

“Indeed,” Em said frostily She moved her plate as far away fro to eat her baked beans in peace She wished she’d o with her breakfast, but she had run out of clay And anyway, Om’bobla probably would have stolen them

“Now speaking of delicacies fro very sexy today,” he renoring him

E her eyes on her plate, she continued to chew She refused to dignify such talk with a response

“Are you ready for the Third Trial?” Oestively at her “Ready to fuck for the glory of your planet? Because Ivery fuckable today, my dear”

As he spoke, Easped and jerked upright at the sudden, extremely unpleasant sensation

“What in the Hell?” she lared at Om’bobla, but both his hands were in view He had turned his head away fro that looked like it had once been a sort of a shark It had a black body and purple fins and ato behold if it had been alive The squidout handfuls of dark grayit into his mouth

E—possibly sitting beside O her skin crawl But as soon as she settled back to her own breakfast, she felt the sensation again—this tih