--Insight--
Item: Corruption Pill
Effect: Forced growth. Random mutation.
Side effects: Yes
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'"Side effects: yes." Thank you, Insight. Very helpful.'
He put it down. He wanted to sweep the whole table onto the floor and stamp on every tin until there was nothing left but green dust.
'Not now, Lexie. Noise.'
'Later, then.' He looked at the hundreds of little tins. 'Nobody's eating these. Nobody, ever again. I'm coming back for every single one.'
Kanos had picked up a tin too. He sniffed it, and his whole face wrinkled up, nose ridges and all.
"Bad," he said in Spinner. "It smells sick."
"Don't eat it."
"I would NEVER eat it." He put it down very carefully, as if it might bite him, and wiped his claws on Arthur.
At the end of the table was a book. It was a big ledger, with a leather cover, and inside, in neat small writing, were lists. Village names, and dates, and under each date, thirteen names.
Millbrook. Tanner's Row. Dunmere. Dunmere. Dunmere.
