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cw: discussion of cannibalism, murder, body horror

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[ Matt's eyebrows arch for his hairline at the invocation of a more literal kind of hell. Though Dean's not the first person to demonstrate familiarity with the place. Matt's roommate, the Literal Christian Devil, has that honor. ]

It's absolutely creepy, [ Matt agrees. He glances off into the distance as he tries to organize his thoughts. ] Okay, how I got to the harvesting idea is ...

One of the first things that happened when I arrived here is they threw a party with cake shaped astonishingly like human people. If you ate it, it gave you pretty strange appetites. [ Matt shrugs. ] I should've died. I don't know why I didn't. And afterwards, analyzing the leftover cake showed it was actually transfigured human remains ... and one of the kitchen staff I managed to track down with this girl Betty said that kind of thing happened "all the time."

[ Matt takes another sip from his glass. ]

Since then, that hasn't been the only grisly transformation moment. There was a "wolfman" over the summer who was actually just a wolf and a person spliced together. I tried to help them, but it didn't work. [ Matt's quiet a moment, subdued, before he rouses himself from his downward dip. ] Um. More transfigured corpses popped up. And I've noticed a kind of commonality in some of the weird urges we get around here. They tend to be arousal, atypical kinks, violence, or activation of trauma. Basically, things that create a lot of emotional energy.

I guess it could just be straight-up torture, but I wonder if this isn't some kind of generative cycle.

[ All of their bodies and spirits hitched to the grinding gears of change: bones elongating and contracting, blood greasing the skids. Energy rising like steam from the wreckage. ]