Second Entrée: Red Meat



A good chef will save their sharpest knives for the second entree. Your guests will smell the red meat. Your guests cannot hold back a moment longer.


Your guests will sit at your altar and beg their god for every bleeding scrap you provide them.


For a moment, Liam was sated. 

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