The men were chuckling and smiling at one another. It had been a bet. Bane was currently winning. I


    gleaned that much from their Little Looks and thements.


    I hated spiders as much as anyone. It wasn’t a particr phobia, I just didn’t Like them. There was


    absolutely no way I was backing down from this dare, though.


    Stepping as proudly as I could off of the chair, I took my seat looking right into the seven remaining


    eyes. I licked my dry Lips and looked stubbornly up at Bane, who stared incredulously down at me.


    “I don’t know how to eat it. Will you help me, please?”


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    Evan’s grin broadened and Kein settled in a chair to watch as Bane reached toward the thing and


    broke a leg off of it. I cringed at the cracking sound, but didn’t move. He used a de on the table to


    open the leg and told me I could eat the meat out of it.


    I picked up the spiny charred leg gingerly and picked a tiny piece of white meat out. No one moved as I


    brought it to my lips. I bit down tentatively and then swallowed. It wasn’t bad, so I dug a second chunk


    out and ate that. The meat was a Little dry, but it had good vor, sweet almost, but not quite.


    Evan spooned up an eye and offered it to me silently. No one was talking now, this was the heart of this


    bet. I took the eye off the spoon and felt it slip between my Lips. It had a weird texture in my mouth, but


    when it burst the vor was amazing, rich and buttery. The center was slippery and chewy, but tasty. I


    spooned a second and third eye myself.


    The men took their seats and we devoured the Scar.


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    “On Earth we had things like this, but we boiled them,” I told the men as I picked through the shell to


    get any remaining meat, dismantled and eaten the scar was much less scary.


    “I bet the meat in the legs would be better if you boiled them. We also had a melted fat concoction we


    dipped the boiled meat in.”


    Damien stretched his legs out and draped an arm across my shoulder.


    “You lost, Brother, pay up.”


    Bane threw his eating implements down and Looked at me with a grin.


    “I thought you would not eat it and I would have to force you. We bet on your reaction, Sister and I lost.


    Damien and Christof stipted that if they won, you get to pick the prize. You earned it, what do you


    want?” he asked.


    I wasn’t sure and then I was very sure.


    The idea was so tempting, but it would make them angry. The devilish smile on my face faded when I


    thought about how offended they would be. Instead, I told him I wanted a back rub and then Looked


    down. That was a safe thing to say.


    “No, you don’t,” Evan said lifting a my chin with his finger. “There Was something else you thought of. I


    saw the lie in your eyes before you looked down.”


    I shook my head in denial. “I want a back rub.”


    Bane called me the nasty name for weakling in theirnguage.


    I looked up at him and he was staring at me from across the table. It came out of my mouth before I


    could stop it.


    “Wear the plug in your ass until we go to sleep,” I said quickly.


    The room was silent for a moment and I knew I had angered them. It was the wrong thing to say. I


    looked down and prayed they would forgive my stupidity.