Episode Six: "Chicken"

In which Caren and Ash learn firsthand why "Meillassoux's Boys" are reputed to be dangerous.

Story by Mabel Harper and Weaver Webb
Written by Weaver Webb

For content warnings, see Episode One.

Caren cast a glance around the huge, litter-strewn Kensington parking lot, which was empty except for Porkchop and a handful of vacant cars parked on the far side.

Flipped her balisong. Sighed. Rubbed her chest.

Stashed the knife. Shivered and stamped her feet. Checked the time on her phone for the million-bazillionth time.

hurry the fuck up, she texted Grenville. you’re gonna miss our ride

Doing my best this is EXTREMELY last minute, came his reply.

“Whatever. I can do this the fuck without you, Daddy’s Boy.” Caren stuffed her phone in her jacket pocket, started to pace.

She took a drag, again glanced aimlessly around. Flexed and clenched and flexed and clenched her empty hand at her side. Cut off a sudden mental flash of Sylvan gazing up at her blearily from Porkchop’s trunk while she double-checked the bracers on his wrists, as he managed one barely audible bleat into the cloth gag—a sound Caren imagined might have been her name—before she smothered his whole dopey sad face with a fresh rag soaked in Morphean miasma till he passed the fuck back out.

Caren. Everything I do is for you…