Fusing: A Slice of Life Progression Fantasy (Millennial Mage Book 5) by J.L. Mullins

Author:J.L. Mullins [Mullins, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter: 20

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Tala took a long couple of minutes to completely come down from the adrenaline released by the butchery she’d just enacted.

Terry took that opportunity to devour the traditionally discarded parts of the corpses. He even went so far as to carefully splay open those that she hadn’t already bisected and remove the innards cleanly. To do this, he used a talon almost like a gut hook, the rounded top facing inward to glide across the underlayers as the sharper point and interior laid the creature open. He cracked the sternums with casual ease.

After severing the esophagus, he grabbed that and pulled, dragging all the guts free before devouring them in their entirety.

The whole sequence was carried out with disturbing familiarity, once again demonstrating his monstrous strength and incredible dexterity.

Wait… “Terry, if you can do that, why did you devour so many of the slain in the forest? When we went out to hunt.”

He regarded her for a long moment, then trilled, gave an avian shrug, and went on to the next fallen beast.

Tala felt her eye twitch. “You didn’t know I wanted the bodies…”

He didn’t look toward her but squawked in a way that conveyed that he’d thought that obvious.

Don’t think about it, Tala. That money’s gone and won’t be coming back. She again watched him devour an animal’s guts.

That doesn’t seem healthy… Tala would have guessed that at least the stomachs and intestines would be bad to eat. At least what was in them.

But what did she know? Terry seemed to regularly ingest animals whole. He probably just processes the entirety into power… somehow.

When he was done, and she was centered once more, Terry returned to stand before her, looking around at the six, massive carcasses laid out around them

He trilled questioningly.

“What am I going to do with them?”

He bobbed a nod.

She gave him a confused look. “Terry… don’t you know?”

He shook himself.

A grin stole over her face. “Jerky, Terry. I want to increase our dwindling supply of jerky.”

Terry froze in place, then looked around once more, taking time to stare at each downed thunder cow or bull. Finally, he trilled in happy triumph, almost seeming to dance in a circle.

Tala found herself laughing. “Come on, we need to find a way of transporting these.” She hesitated, then groaned. “I’m an idiot, again…”

Terry seemed quite pleased and continued to flit about, trilling and chirping.

“Any ideas?”

He stopped, looking between her and the carcasses. Finally, he flickered to her side and nuzzled Kit.

“I could probably make that work, but I’d have to cut them into basically long strips.” She looked between the bodies and finally sighed. “I can probably get them in fourths.” Kit can open wide enough for that.

With no time to waste, Tala used Flow to carve the already bisected cow down until it was roughly as big around as Kit’s opening, and much, much longer.

She wouldn’t have been able to do so with a mundane tool, but Flow sliced through with little effort.

It took quite a bit of finagling to get the long quarters in, but she did it in the end.

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