Episode MMVII – Neho, The Stabber

At the Lake of the Great Bear Camp, we came upon the fabled horned water cattle, beasts with succulent flesh and receptive manner as is written in the Sacred Texts. They swam lazily back and forth in the warm sunlight, giving us a welcoming if quizzical look and speaking warm greetings of trust and love as we moved about them with clubs and stabbers and, oblivious to their cries for mercy, made quick work of them, turning the clear waters of the lake sour and thick with blood and filth. After hauling their carcasses to shore and indifferent to their stench, Neho, the Stabber, slaughtered them and caused a bonfire to be lit for their full roasting. The feast that followed went on for days, leaving us sated but in a deep stupor, interrupted only by painful cramps and the stinging bites of the lake worms that infested the shore and, burrowed into our flesh, until they in turn were sated. There was but one cure and those submitting to it rarely remained standing for the pain. © mmg 2007