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Why are rain frogs so round? What's /inside/ of them around such an itty bitty skeleton?

So it turns out this is a really interesting question.

The first thing we must be aware of is that rainfrogs as we see them in videos of them squeaking are not quite the same shape as they are when at rest:

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But you are quite right, they are very round. This is exemplified by the skeletal photo you refer to:

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So what are we seeing?

Well, firstly, note that the body cavity in these frogs actually envelops the femurs, such that only the tibiofibula (fused in frogs) and the tarsals and metatarsals are outside the body. The arms are quite similarly enveloped, but a bit of the humerus does extend outside the body cavity too. This predisposes them to a rounder body shape.

Next, note the ilia - the U-shaped bone in the pelvic region. These in some breviceptid frogs are synostotically fused with the sacrum - that is to say, they are bound by bone-based connections to the bow-shaped vertebra at their tips. This whole joint seems to be quite smooth, and as a consequence, the back of the frog is quite smooth. The other thing we can see here is that the urostyle (i.e. the frog version of a coccyx) juts quite far beyond the ischium and pubis. This extends the body cavity beyond the hips. Note also that the pelvic girdle seems to be largely below the spine, rather than the typical position for frogs behind it and continuous with it. This makes the legs sit below the spine, rather than at its end, enhnacing the vertical roundness of the animal.

Next, let’s talk some soft tissue. Now, I’m not as familiar with soft-tissue in frogs as I am their skeletons, so you’ll have to bear with me a bit (rawr). Beddard (1908!!) studied the soft tissue of Breviceps verrucosus Rapp 1842. It seems that the majority of the body of these frogs is actually muscle. Beddard noted that muscles join the leg at the knee that extend into the body cavity, such that the inclusion of the thigh in the body cavity is further accentuated by musculature. The rectus abdominalis muscle is unusually large, extending from the lower abdomen up and around the sides of the body. Indeed, this large size appears to be the pattern with all of the major muscles, though in the throat the typical arrangement of large and small muscles is somewhat reversed. On the lateral side of the head, there is a substance that is not muscle, but appears to be loose tissue in which sits what is apparently the thymus gland.

There is a very large gap between the end of the urostyle and the anus (one fifth of the total length of the frog), in which there are almost no muscles, save for the one surrounding the lower cloaca. On either side of this area, between the posterior-most muscles of the thigh, lie two large ‘lymph-hearts’, as described by Beddard. These are between one quarter and one third of the total length of the frog. A further lypmh-sac sits between these lymph-hearts and the skin of the femoral region, and they are thus probably analogous to the femoral lymph-sacs of other frogs.

I find it interesting that Beddard (1908) did not mention any glandular formations in the dorsal region. As is evidence from many images (see below), these frogs are able to secrete a white, sticky, noxious substance from their skin (which they actually have to use during amplexus, as the male is too small relative to the female to mount her properly, and so he sticks himself to her with his glandular glue… kinky).

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These glands do not apparently take up a great deal of the cutaneous tissue, and so I suppose are of no consequence to the size of the frog, especially relative to its enormous muscles.

The diet of these frogs consists almost exclusively of hymenopterans and isopterans (ants and termites). Neither of these insect groups are particularly fatty, so it is little surprise that their bodies appear to contain no large fat deposits - fatty bodies extend from the gonads up to the lungs and heart, but these comprise only a tiny fraction of the frog’s mass, and don’t contribute to the round shape. Instead, their bodies are extremely muscular, allowing them to be adept burrowers, ideal for their fossorial lifestyle.

So TL;DR: rain frogs are little balls of muscle (maybe the largest muscle mass relative to body mass of any vertebrate? science just doesn’t know).

Ref:

Beddard, F.E. 1908. On the Musculature and other Points in the Anatomy of the Engystomatid Frog, Breviceps verrucosus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1908:11-41 [x]

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brookstonalmanac · 3 months ago

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Birthdays 8.3

Beer Birthdays

Emmanuel Bernheimer (1817)

Steve Donohue (1971)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Landis; film director (1950)

Elisha Otis; elevator inventor (1811)

Ernie Pyle; journalist (1900)

John T. Scopes; high school teacher convicted of teaching evolution (1900)

Martin Sheen; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Richard Adler; composer, lyricist (1921)

Lance Alworth; Dallas Cowboys WR (1940)

Tony Bennett; jazz singer (1926)

Steven Berkoff; actor (1937)

Ray Bloch; orchestra leader (1920)

Tom Brady; New England Patriots QB (1977)

Lawrence Brown; jazz trombonist (1909)

Rupert Burke; English writer (1887)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark; writer (1909)

Dolores del Rio; actor (1905)

Les Elgart; trumpet player, bandleader (1917)

P.D. James; English writer (1920)

Maggie Kuhn; Gray Panther (1905)

Evangeline Lilly; actor, model (1979)

Ryan Lochte; swimmer, idiot (1984)

Jay North; actor (1951)

Lee Rocker; rockabilly bassist (1961)

Gordon Scott; actor (1926)

Charlie Shavers; trumpet player (1917)

Martha Stewart; television style personality (1941)

Leon Uris; writer (1924)

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caocao-caokie-blog · 1 year ago

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Isagani Christiano Ligaya Dacanay / Kentaro Momoaki 健太郎桃秋

Dorm: Ramshackle

Age: 18

Grade: 1st Year

Birthday: August 21

Favorite Class: History of Magic

Worst Class: P.E.

Club: Board Game Club

Skills: Not much. Most stuff he knows is easy memorization and video games. He and Idia are butting head to head playing M*rio Ka*t, Sm*sh Br*s or something. I feel like the club has rotating D&D DM’s and at least 3 different campaigns going on, then a special one every other Saturday of the week because SUNDAYS ARE IMPORTANT IDIA -By, Isagani probably. ^ - ^

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From a young age, young Isagani was always ill. His family abandoned him in a far off ranch home they never visit, so he has only met the few locals around the area. Usually, his cook, Bryson, talked with a lady, trading food and small talk. His nanny Amélia was around, but not much of a talker. His tutor Max never stayed around to long, preferring to stay with his family.

He always looked to his tutor and wondered how it was like to spend time with your family. Whenever he tried to talk to the few kids he met, they ignored him. Now, he hypothesized it was because of rumors about the house, but that was a story for another day. He conversed with Bryson, which was mostly one sided. But, the lady that gave them fish and meat talked and conversed with him a whole bunch. Nadia was great company for him.

She was like his second mother, and became his cheerleader for most of life. Although he doesn’t talk about his past much, he speaks of her fondly. She was the one to tell him of the world outside the mansion, the one to teach him of how to storytell, and the one to inspire him to go to Japan.

He left his old home for Okinawa, to live with a nurse who only visits to check up on him.

Living alone for the first time was difficult. Bryson never taught him how to look, and the lessons he took with Nadia weren’t enough. He was deeply unprepared. But, he pulled through, and survived in Japan.

He took classes online, and was taught by a private tutors for the morning to mid afternoons. After, he went and continued writing in his book, creating more and more stories for himself.

He met both Kauê and Takeo one day when he started to get faint once again due to the oppressive sun. He was found collapsed by the two, and brought to Takeo’s home, where he was taken care of by both of them, to various levels of effort.

Today, he would laugh at the story at their first meeting proper, but, they visited him every day. Made sure he was alive. Checked up on him, talked with him, and gave him comfort. They became his first taste of friendship.

He remembers when they were taken like it was just yesterday. They were having one of their usual late hangout sessions. Takeo had his nose in a botany book, Kauê was watching a rugby game, and Isagani was beating someone in a game. They all eventually slept, with Isagani being the last one to rest. He felt something wrong.

He eventually ignored it in favor of shut eye.

Not before seeing the black carriage mind you.

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Kauê & Takeo: Sticks to them like glue. Very, very, rare if they are all separated, usually since Isagani acts both slothish and squidish, he latches on to either of them. If they are all together, at least something will happen. Something someone somewhere somewhat somehow knew about the event. Even something small like raking leaves could cause a calamity if the universe plays it’s cards right.

Idia: Buddies in antisocial personalities and avoidant interest. They get along well if they don’t have a need to talk, but hearing their conversation can come off a bit…frustrating.

“Um, hey-“.

“Uwwah! Isa-kun. W-what do you want?”.

“…Um, well I needed help with…”

*Silence*

“Some stuff…”

“Y-yeah…sure…”

Azul: Would be constantly wary and avoidant over this man. Absolutely scared shitless the first time they met. Isagani was just like “Hey-“ during one of his briefings, and since then, has made the twins check his office to make sure he isn’t there. Why was Isagani there. Wouldn’t you like to know reader. (´⊙ω⊙`)

Floyd & Jade: Buddies in crime. Even with his weak constitution, he is able to cause havoc safely while ruining the perfect days for people like Riddle and Azul. He set’s up whipped cream traps for them to trigger and cake the person head-to-toe. Has gotten collared before.

Yuu: ^_^ He likes Yuu. Nice, friendly, devious, helpful. Nothing suspicious. Nothing. Nothing.

Yuuken: No opinion just yet, but is amicable to each other.

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dramaornothing · 2 years ago

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The Pisces boy and the Cancer Girl pt 10

Songs:

~Qual, é, Cat? Está com medo?

-Eu? medo? óbvio que não, você só não me convenceu direito mesmo.Vamos jogar várias partidas de WR?

Ele ri.~Sabe que vamos sim.

-Hum... eu iria fazer isso mesmo em casa, jogar contigo, então, não vejo mal em fazer isso aqui com você.

Ele me abraça.

~Uhuuu! vai ser ótimo!

Eu rio e o abraço de volta.

-Ok! agora pega as toalhas porque meu corpo já está ficando todo marcado de água.Cat Ri.

~Ok,ok, já volto!

Nisso ele sai da piscina e busca dois roupões, um para ele e um para Cat.

Cat sai da piscina e vira de costas para Henry, o mesmo coloca o roupão nela, ficando próximo até um pouco demais, em seguida Cat se vira para ele, para que ele possa dar o laço no roupão, no qual, no dele, ele não deu. Ele a olha profundamente, assim como a mesma, a respiração dos dois pesam.

-Bom, é, vou tomar um banho, me separa alguma camisa que vire um vestido para mim, por favor? Não deve ser dificil achar uma que fique assim, afinal...Falo citando nossa grande diferença de altura e sorrio.

~Tá, vai lá. Vou pegar uma bem confortável para ti. -ele fala e beija a testa de Cat, em seguida vai em direção do guarda roupa-

Arrepiada com seu beijo na testa, Cat vai até o banheiro, tira o restante das peças que está vestida e o roupão e liga o chuveiro, a água caindo suavemente por seu corpo, bem morninha, perfeita.

O banheiro tem um separador a qual quem entra não consegue ver o chuveiro, então assim Henry entrou e deixou uma camisa preta de Imagine Dragons com o nome e dragões pela camisa, referência a ser uma das bandas favoritas dos dois, desde o ensino médio.

Ele sorri e sai.~Camisa está no banheiro, Cat, aposto que irá adorar a mesma

-TÁ! OBRIGADA - a voz sai super alta devido ao eco do banheiro-Cat termina o banho e se enxuga mais uma vez com o roupão, após estar seca, pega a camisa e dá um sorrido de como quem diz’’ ele nunca mais vai ver essa camisa na vida dele, agora é minha u.u’’ , veste a camisa e pega sua roupa intima molhada para ir estender na varanda.

Ao sair do banheiro, Henry estava escorado na parede e quando a vê se segura para não ficar boquiaberto.

~Err... ficou legal, combina contigo, camisa larga assim, uh, e as cores, dão contraste em você, e, seu cabelo. ficou mais legal em você do que em mim.-Claro, esse já era o esperado né?

-Ambos rimos- Não te devolverei mais.

~Nah, não precisa, ficou muito linda em você, eu não faria a barbaridade de retirar de você. - Ele se toca do que falou- Quer dizer... Na verdade é uma barbaridade tentadora.- Ele fala baixo, como cat foi estender sua lingerie, não ouviu.-

- O que você disse? Não ouvi.

~Ah, nada não, vou tomar o banho aqui rapidão tá? Já volto

-Okok.

Ele segue ao banheiro e Cat se joga na cama do mesmo, -que por sinal, super macia e molinha!- Amei!

Halsey me mandou mensagens, chateada por eu ter dito que ia sair com o Henry... eu não a entendo, Eu queria que a teoria do Henry sobre ela ainda gostar de mim não fosse verdadeira... Ela é somente uma amiga muito importante, mas eu não conseguiria ver ela de forma amorosa, isso me entristece...

Henry sai do banheiro, com uma toalha enrolada somente da cintura para baixo. O olho sem pensar duas vezes.

-Quer que eu saia, para você se vestir mais a vontade?

~Não precisa não, você já viu meu bumbum antes, na escola, Cat -ele sorri, de costas para mim e tira a toalha, viro o rosto rapidamente-

-henry, eu vou te matar sabia!!!Henry ri alto, ele pega uma cueca branca com borda da calvin klein e em seguida coloca sua calça novamente, mas dessa vez, ficando sem camisa.

~Pronto, pode olhar, boba.

Direciono meu olhar a ele e o mesmo se joga na cama, em meu lado.dou uma leve batida em seu peito.

-Brincadeira sem graça -faço cara de brava-

~OWN, Fica bravinha não, modeuso.

Ele puxa a bochecha de Cat, que bufa.

-HUMPF.e vira pro outro lado da cama, ficando de costas para ele. Ao virar, a camisa sobe um pouco e mostra um pedaço da bunda, o que Henry a respeita e vira o olhar para não encarar.

Cat geme baixo, pois sentiu uma pontada nas costas, a que sentiu desde cedo, devido ao acidente.

~Você está... bem? - Ele tenta não pensar besteira-

-Eu estou, sim, só com dor nas costas e cintura, foi onde machucou, no acidente.

~Você quer uma massagem...?

-Olha, acho que não posso recusar.

~Vira de costas.

Cat então o faz e o Henry começa a massagear por suas costas, suavemente, calmamente, com carinho. de uma forma tranquila e gostosa, aliviando a dor. Quando ele desce as m��os para a cintura, Cat arfa, baixo, ele mantém-se naquela região, não há como saber se a arfada foi de prazer, ou do alivio da dor, ou os dois. Henry começa a achar que está passando dos limites e para.

~Melhorou mais?

-SIm, sim, obrigada. Você tem mãos... hm, como dizem?

~Mãos de anjo?

Cat sorri.

- Sim, por ai...

~Posso te mostrar mais coisas que consigo fazer, dessa forma, com ou sem minhas... mãos.

Cat pisca os olhos algumas vezes, tentando processar o que ele havia acabado de dizer.

-Hmmmm, legal!! que tal a gente jogar?

~Tá, claro, vamos.

Ambos viramos de barriga para cima na cama e abrimos o jogo em nossos celulares.

-Vamos fechar time, para ter mais chance de não ter troll no time

~Tá bem.

Abrimos o grupo.Time fechado.

mensagem chat grupo: liguem call.Geral liga a call.

-Oii

~Eaee

Demais jogadores:^ Oláa,

^ninguém trolla pf, vamo jogar sério, quero ir pra dima

Jogador ri. ^ Estamos todos tentando né

^ foco nos obj.

Assim passa a seleção de campeões, Henry escolheu Xayah, eu escolhi Seraphine.

Conversávamos na call e entre si.

Os demais jogadores nos ouviam, e sempre tinha alguém para perguntar da gente, e falar ‘’fofos’’ ou que temos algo, mesmo sem sequer saber, que estamos do lado um do outro.

-Por que sempre todos acham que temos algo durante as partidas? -falo após multar o grupo e rir-

~Boa pergunta -Ele ri- Talvez por sermos ambos carinhosos um com o outro e por nos importarmos demais também, com se o outro vai morrer e querer ajudar/sacrificar-se um pelo outro? Eu acho...-É... parece ser isso mesmo.

-Meu coração acelera, isso me pareceu tanto uma declaração, mas ok, ele só é carinhoso mesmo.-

Após essa conversa ficamos mais calados entre nós, falando mais na chamada. Ambos ficaram sem jeito, sem saber o motivo direito.

Assim se passaram uma, duas, três, quatro, cinco, seis partidas de vitória seguidas, até que na sétima tivemos o azar de ter ficado sem o jungle, o que nos fez perder a partida horrivelmente.

-ok, ok, por mim já deu por hoje

~É, acho que concordo, mas, po, chegamos bem próximo de subir o elo

-Verdade, talvez consigamos essa semana ainda, hihi.

Ambos soltamos o celular e nos viramos de frente um para o outro, ele alisa meu rosto, fecho meus olhos me derramando com o carinho dele, me entregando. Ele faz cafuné em mim e de repente, para. Abro os olhos.

~Estou indo para a outra cama, ok? pode ficar nessa.

-Ah, h-hm... Ok.

Ele se levanta, tenta não demonstrar que está desapontado, me olha e dá um sorrido educado.

~Ah, boa noite, Cat.

Ele se locomove até o outro quarto

.-Boa....É...Henry, espera...

Ele para e se vira novamente.

- Oi, você deseja algo? Água, comida?

Você. -penso comigo mesma e quase o disse mas não consegui, abaixo a cabeça.

- Ahn, não, nada.

~Ah, tudo bem, então, qualquer coisa, pode chamar ok?

- Ok. Pode ir...

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A Brainful Process || Morgan &Rio

@3starsquinn

Cemetery field trip!

(Contains: zombie and animal gore)

Cemeteries were safer to visit in Morgan’s idle house than the woods. In cemeteries, most of the company was resting six feet under, and those that weren’t had a tendency to wave at Morgan as she walked by, content to leave her alone, one still soul to another. Some even warned her when it was better to turn back home. There’s a girl with the stake that comes by around now, a ghost might say. Or, we don’t like you that much. Cemeteries were safer, yes, and yet somehow tonight Morgan still found herself tackled to the ground, wrestling with a one legged zombie who, for all her wild hunger, really knew how to use her strength to her advantage. “Uh--a little help, maybe?” She called, appealing to one of the spirits nearby. “I don’t know what you expect me to do about it,” the old man said, and drifted off to watch her struggle somewhere else. “Okay, okay, ok--ow!” The zombie woman bit into her shoulder, moaning with hunger. Morgan kicked, trying to knock her off balance enough to shift the weight between them like Mina had taught her, but it was a lot harder when the opponent didn’t have much of a mind for sensing pain. Morgan set her jaw and lashed out to struggle with the zombie woman again. “We got this,” she grunted. “You’re gonna be fine, you just gotta stop trying to eat me!”

Cemeteries had scared Orion far before he knew ghosts and spirits existed. He supposed he always knew they were real. Growing up learning about werewolves and Fae made pretty much anything believable. If his parents had bothered telling him about Santa, Rio might still think he was real. But he had always thought of ghosts in the more creepypasta YouTube sense. That they haunted others. They were crazy stories that made things colder and flipped on lights. Not the kind that possessed other humans and drained their life force. But ever since Rio had learned about the Dybbuks and other evil spirits, Rio hadn’t been able to get them off his mind. Rio began pulling books about ghosts and spirits. The more he read, the more intrigued he became with some of the accounts of sightings. Winston and Ricky must have really gotten to Rio. Without even realizing it, on his way home that night he was taking a detour and heading towards the cemetery. For no other reason than pure stupidity, if Rio had to guess. Once he was within range however, he started hearing voices. The hairs on his arms stood straight up and he immediately began shaking. At least, until he realized that the voices weren’t ghosts or spirits but a person. A person that sounded like they were in danger. Rio picked up his pace, beginning to job before breaking into a sprint towards the cemetery, stopping only when he finally spotted the source of the voice, a woman being attacked by another. “Hey!” Rio yelled, trying to sound more dangerous than he actually was, “Let her go!” Rio began moving towards the two slowly, freezing when he finally realized who the victim of the evening was, “Professor?”

The sound of another voice made Morgan’s dead body go stiff. Fuck. The last thing she needed was human company, or some hunter about to stumble upon a two-for-one deal. “W-we’re fine!” She grunted, finally grappling the zombie woman to the ground and pinning her down. “She’s--she’s just---uh--” Morgan struggled for a good lie. The woman was in literal pieces, her skin sagging off her bones and pockets of bare muscle spreading bursts of dark, grotesque color. And the person was coming closer. “Having an attack! Nothing to see here--Rio?”

Morgan saw him through the edge of her vision and didn’t know whether to be relieved or agitated. She hadn’t told Rio the ‘sudden loss in her family’ that explained away two weeks worth of missed classes had been her own. She hadn’t told any of her students. Funny enough, that still wasn’t a conversation she felt like having. But there wasn’t going to be any fooling him. He was too much of a supernatural scholar to not see the obvious, at least when it came to the woman thrashing and groaning under her. “Hey!” She said brightly, panic tight in her smile. “How weird and amazing to run into you here! I’m fine, she’s fine, we’re both fine right now, completely. But you should really stay back and um, maybe grab some rope? And some fresh brains?” She was convinced, maybe falsely, that she had enough confidence to sell everything she was saying without the need for questions. Then the zombie woman rocked against her weight and threw her off, driven by the pull of fresh meat.

For a long moment, Orion just stood from a distance and stared at Morgan and the woman clawing at her. This didn’t make any sense. Why was Morgan being so casual right now? Was this some sort of fever dream brought on by the lack of sleep? “Uh” Rio hummed, drawing it out for far longer than any of them needed. “Both fine. Right.” He realized, maybe many beats too late, that he had still not moved from his spot. Until now, he had stared at the sight as if it was a horror scene in a movie. “Brains?” Rio asked, touching at his head instinctively before realizing that Morgan probably had a rope and brains here. Because this was a zombie. A zombie. A ZOMBIE? It took this long for the fear to finally rush into Rio’s body and he immediately started fidgeting, the usual skin crawling feeling worming its way through his body. “Oh my god. A zombie! I’ve never met a zombie! I’m going to do something now.” Rio spoke aloud, as if that was going to finally motivate his body to follow the commands. Apparently it worked, his feet finally inching across the grass and towards the two. “What do you want me to do with these things once I have them?”

Morgan’s thin smile fractured with dismay. As much as she was relieved Rio wasn’t some guns a blazing hunter trying to get more goo for their collection. But she didn’t know if this was really the time for scholarly curiosity either. Maybe more like run and take action time. Move faster NOW time. Morgan dove for the zombie again, tackling her to the ground and pressing down with all her weight. She looked up at Rio, pleading for his help. She could keep the zombie pinned down for now, but she wouldn’t be able to help the dead woman with just her hands alone. And, shit--of course Rio wouldn’t have anything on him. He wasn’t Kaden, for crying out loud. Morgan looked around them, mind racing to keep up, to stay ahead of any panic. Maybe this was the time for scholarly curiosity. “The plan!” She said, forcing as much confidence into her bright voice as possible. “The plan is you...find something that will do instead of rope. Um...your belt! And uuh…” She looked around her with dismay. “My belt!” It was a lot daintier, meant for her small waist as decoration rather than supporting any weight. “And we are going to bind the zombie as tightly as we can. Because, fun fact: zombies have a much higher pain threshold than humans! Whatever would hurt for you won’t hurt for them, so that’s not something to worry about when they’re...like this.” She swallowed thickly and forced another smile as the zombie rocked and struggled under her. “When her limbes are secure, we’ll get her some of the food from my bag--” what was supposed to have been her lunch, “--and give her some of that. And then...more, probaby. From...somewhere else. I’m not...actually sure from where yet, but--fun zombie fact 2: decomposition and ‘rabid’ behavior is a symptom of starvation and not, necessarily, the zombie’s natural state! With sustainable access to food, your average zombie isn’t much different than a human, by outward appearances anyway.” Now if they could work on this together without Rio wondering too hard about how she knew all this, it might actually be easy. Or at least, not hard.

Okay, obviously it was clear that Morgan was preoccupied right now. Trying to hold back the woman- er uh the zombie from munching on either of them. Ignoring the swelling excitement as well as the far more palpable fear that was building inside of him, Orion tried to put aside any jitters and listen to Morgan’s instructions. He was lucky he had worn jeans today instead of the usual joggers or track pants, and that he was embarrassingly skinny for his age and height, so any pair of jeans that he wore usually required a belt. He pulled the belt free, hooking his pinky around a belt loop to avoid his jeans dropping. God, that would be embarrassing. “Okay uh- my belt is good. And your belt is uh- still attached to you.” Rio called, still standing a few feet back. He was not incredibly comfortable with the idea of undoing his teacher’s belt, but he supposed there were… strange circumstances.

“This is great!” Rio tried remaining positive, his voice cracking at the end of his sentence. Although Rio greatly appreciated the information on Zombies, a species he had not done much study on. He was familiar with a couple of culture’s depiction of zombies in their own lore, but from what Morgan was describing, they differed quite a bit. “I am very happy to help and I am totally going to keep my cool during this time.” Rio said aloud, probably trying to convince himself more than he was trying to convince Morgan. He slowly inched towards them, holding his arms out with his belt gripped tightly in both hands. “Do uh- you want me to do this? Or you? Is the whole thing about a zombie bite still true?”

Jeepers, this was going to be tricky. The zombie woman was beginning to thrash, dragging her and Morgan across the ground inch by inch. The closer Rio got, the more she wriggled her head, gnashing her rotting teeth. Morgan shifted position, pressing her knee down into the woman’s back. This was really not very seemly, but she couldn’t think of another way that would keep the zombie from hurting anyone long enough to feed properly. “We got this, we got this,” she murmured, still racing for ideas. “We got this!” She declared. “You are doing a great job, Rio! Just grab her legs and I’ll get the arms, and we’ll bind them up together. No worries!” She grabbed one of the zombie’s arms, then the other, wrestling against the woman’s frustration. “But, uh, yeah, about the bite. Fun fact, that’s--fuck!” The zombie woman’s teeth bit into her hand, grazing the cuff she used to hide her real scar. Morgan finished wrangling the arms with a grimace and whipped off her belt to fasten her arms together so the wrists would come more easily. “The bite thing is real,” she said, looking down at the wound in her hand. “But don’t freak out, Rio, okay? It doesn’t matter if she bites me, it’s you I’m worried about. Uh, get her wrists and ankles together?”

Orion could do this. He could totally do this. He did not love the idea of grabbing onto this woman, zombie or no. But Morgan seemed convinced that she would not feel the pain and that they were not going to harm her. That was what Rio wanted right? What was some tying and gagging if it meant helping her and others not get hurt? That was totally something that Rio could get behind. Grabbing onto her legs was surprisingly easy. Hunter strength and all made wrangling the woman’s legs surprisingly easy. At least, until the zombie bit Morgan. Rio dropped the legs immediately and began screaming his head off. At that moment, he wasn’t sure what was happening. Would Morgan turn into a zombie? How fast was the process? Was there something he could do to stop it? Rio had seen some zombie shows. How they amputated the body part that had been bitten to stop the spread. Even the idea made Rio light headed. He definitely couldn’t do that. Finally, Rio contained himself again, grappling the legs again and holding them. What the heck did Morgan mean that she wasn’t worried about herself? Was she immune to the bite somehow? “I- I don’t- uhhhhh” Rio’s brain broke for a moment, but he forced himself out of the slump. Grabbing onto the woman’s wrists and easily pulling them back to meet the ankles and wrapping his belt around them. “Oh god- Oh god. I hate this. I’m really bad at this. I think I’m going to puke. Are you okay???”

“Rio! You cannot puke on this woman!” Morgan shrieked. Oh dear. This wasn’t calm. This was the opposite of calm. Could she breathe? Was that ever going to work again? She missed the time when all she had to do was tell herself to breathe and her body would start to right itself back into something right and normal. But the quiet was too great and there was too much happening at once. “I’m fine! I’m not even bleeding!” Mostly because she didn’t have any circulation. “Just--just hold her steady and don’t turn into a zombie!” She scrambled over to her bag and prised open a tupperware full of brains, a blend, as it happened, but even a smidgen of person in there probably wasn’t going to get this woman back to normal. They’d have to take her somewhere better, or get better to her. Morgan stuck the tupperware under the woman’s nose and watched, grimacing, as she moaned and wrangled herself closer to fit as much of it in her mouth as possible. Morgan sat back and deflated. That would keep her busy for, what, five minutes? “I’m sorry,” she said. “I am fine though. I’m…” Morgan shook her head and sid off the cuff, showing Rio her old scar, a perfect oval in the shape of Remmy’s mouth. “I’m already bitten and dead, Rio. Say, you didn’t happen to bring a car here, did you?”

“I’m not going to puke on her!” Orion yelled back, unsure why he was even still yelling. Stress. He totally blamed stress. He needed to calm down. Take a chill pill or something. That was all thrown out the window when Morgan tried to reassure him by letting him know that she wasn’t bleeding. “How are you not bleeding?” Rio was right back to freaking out now. But Morgan seemed more together than Rio was. She was in the right state of mind to fish out something from her bag and give it to the tied up woman. “Is that… brains?” Rio asked, the most calm he had been since showing up here. He examined the mush curiously. Everything seemingly clicked into place when Morgan showed off what looked like an old, already healed scar. She was dead? “You’re… a zombie?” Rio muttered aloud, needing to hear the words to actually begin processing it. A moment of fear passed through him as he considered that Rio had just willingly walked into being part of their midnight snack. But he pushed the thought away quickly. That couldn’t be. This was his professor. They had talked about books and the supernatural together. “Woah. You’re nothing like the old Haitian story of zombies.” His head tilted curiously as he examined his teacher to try to pick out any defining details. By all accounts, she looked human to him. “Hmm… interesting.” Rio nodded, and then grimaced at the next question, “About that… I don’t really have a car right now. It belongs to my parents and I’m not really talking to them right now and- y’know what? It’s a whole thing. Clearly we have other things going on right now. Maybe I can call my friend Blanche. Or one of my roommates! Maybe they can help us? Or uh… Where are we taking her anyways?”

“Wow, kid, that’s really one heck of a compliment,” Morgan deadpanned. “But...yes. I got hurt really bad and I died. Two months ago now. That’s why I missed so much school towards the end of the semester. I died, Rio.” She looked down at the woman gnashing her teeth at the brain bits in the tupperware. “But I have people who help take care of me. I can stay fed easily. I have a home. I have a girlfriend that loves me. I even have magic pills for my new zombie physiology that help manage all the depression I’ve got over dying. I don’t know which of those this woman is missing, but whatever it is, she’s still a person. She’s as much of a person as I am. Does that make sense?” She looked at him earnestly. Rio was a good kid. Rio didn’t believe in hurting people. He had to get it. Maybe it was hard to see the woman in her own right. Even Morgan couldn’t do that. She didn’t know her name or if she was happy before she died or how long she had been dragging herself out of bed. She could only see her pain. She had to be in so much pain to have sunk this far. The days of starving had to have been excruciating. With this kind of decay, maybe it was even weeks. “I was thinking of getting her to the butcher’s, but I don’t know if their stock will be enough for her. It’s worth a shot, if we can keep her from getting noticed. “Unless you wanna do a run? You got venmo, Rio?” She asked. The brains were almost gone, and of the two of them, Rio was the one most in danger. And this wasn’t his problem, now that she was mostly subdued. “You don’t have to, you know. I can take this from here.”

Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the best thing to say at this moment. Clearly, Orion had no idea what he was doing. He had grown up knowing about the supernatural. He loved learning about them and yet despite this he still had just barely scratched the surface. He knew nothing about Zombies, or real zombies at least. “Wow. I’m uh- sorry? That doesn’t sound like a good thing. But you don’t look dead.” Rio tried, he didn’t think that helped redeem him. “Okay that was probably a bad thing to say too. But despite all that… I’m really glad that you have a good support system, y’know? That must have been a really difficult thing to go through and… well I’m really glad things seem okay now. At least, hopefully everything’s okay.” And Morgan seemed dead set on helping this woman right now. And though the woman tied up seemed a little… murdery right now, Rio believed that with some help she could end up like Morgan seemed now. Completely put together. “I believe you. And I’m in. Let’s help her. Uh- I can run somewhere and get stuff… I don’t know what to get. But tell me and I’ll figure something out.”

“Well, you can tell that to my necrosis whenever I wait too long to eat my wheaties.” Morgan mumbled. You can test my pulse too, if you want.” She held out her hand, the bite standing out as a heavy shadow on her pale skin. “And no, you don’t need to be sorry--” But Rio was. He was just a kid doing his best with problems way bigger than himself. “But thank you. I know you mean it well.” She stared at the woman writhing in front of them again. She could see, too clearly now, what hunters did. A raving thing, a disaster they needed to triage before it got out of hand, a monster… “I can venmo you. A hundred dollars so should be able to buy out the brains at the butcher shop, whatever other weird organs they’ve got. That’s a start.” And while he was out she could maybe scrounge up a deer. They wandered through near dusk in little clusters, and it was the time of year when fauns were left to hide in the tall grass while mothers hunted. If she was quick and lucky, she’d be able to nab one for this woman to have. And maybe then, maybe if they were lucky, she could be okay. Morgan wrenched a hand through her hair and took out her phone to send the money over.

Orion laughed, happy that despite the horrible events that had clearly befallen his teacher without him even knowing about it, she could maintain some level of humor. “Don’t worry. I believe you. It’s uh- definitely not my first rodeo with the supernatural.” Even if he didn’t quite understand, he did believe. “Um right. I got it. Give me…” Rio paused, checking his phone for the time, “Twenty minutes. I’ll be back as soon as possible.”

One of the good things about being a hunter? Superhuman endurance. Rio was definitely not in shape, but he could run for a while without having to stop. From here, he was pretty sure that it would be more efficient to get a car. If he could run home and borrow Ricky’s truck then he could get to the butcher shop and back without too much trouble. So he ran towards their house as fast as he possibly could, not letting anything distract him.

It worried Morgan how much animals still trusted her. The faun was too scared of the moaning woman six yards ahead to move. Morgan was able to settle down near it, still as death, and when it came over to sniff her out of curiosity, she took its neck and snapped it. The head dangled limp from the body like a toy that had lost all its stuffing. She carried it back to the woman and did not have to wait for her to wriggle and strain against her bonds trying to eat it. Morgan took out a knife and sliced the creature open neatly so she didn’t have to fight. Then she walked away enough yards so the smell of it wouldn’t compel her to steal a starving woman’s meal and licked blood and skin from her hands.

When Rio finally returned, Morgan was perched atop a large cross marker, stained with blood for all that she’d tried to keep herself clean. “Just unwrap everything for her and drop it where she can reach,” she called. “And then, you know, come over here so you don’t get bitten.”

Buying brains from a butcher was perhaps the most uncomfortable Orion had ever been. Despite this incredibly odd request, the butcher didn’t seem to think much of it at all. Which could only mean that this was not an uncommon request that he received. Which probably implied that Morgan and this woman were not the only zombies in town. It hadn’t occurred until now that Morgan could have been the one that turned this woman. But no. His Professor wouldn’t do that. Not unless she had to for some reason. Right?

Rio drove back to Morgan mostly in silence. He hated driving the truck. He didn’t trust himself with a big car. Plus he could barely see while driving the thing and hated ruining Ricky’s seat and mirror placement. But desperate times. Rio parked and hopped out, extending his arm so he could hold the brains at a distance from himself. “I’m here!” Rio yelled out, stopping when he noticed that Morgan had blood all over her shirt. Oh no. “What happened? Are you okay?” Rio asked. Despite this, maybe because he was too trusting just as Athena had always insulted him with, he followed Morgan’s instructions. Unwrapping the brains and tossing it to the tied up woman before hopping away and standing close to his professor. He could smell the blood that stained her. It was fresh.

“It’s okay, Rio,” Morgan said. “What do you think I’m gonna do, die again?” She smirked. A beat later, maybe too late, she wondered if that was maybe a bad joke. Rio knew about the supernatural, but maybe not about death. He hadn’t studied zombies before in his big secret library. He barely seemed comfortable with hauling brains and organs over from the butcher. Morgan sighed with a grimace and tried again. “I killed a faun for her. I didn’t think that was something you needed to be around to see. Brains sustain zombies best, but freshly dead meat is…” Her stomach grumbled, twisting. “Like candy on Halloween. You can’t not have any.” She looked down at him, still clinging to her perch. Her fingers had worn notches into the rock, worrying at the grain to keep from breaking off Bambi’s leg and going to town herself. “It’s just how we’re made,” she said quietly. “When the mother comes back to see if her faun is still around, I’ll try to get her too, if our friend isn’t back to herself yet.” She hesitated a moment, wondering if they had crossed into over sharing territory, if this was already too much for one troubled kid to bear in one night. “You don’t have to watch, or be around for any of that,” she said. “This is just another Tuesday for me, but it was a lot to get used to. It still is. You’ve been a big help, though. If all this turns out okay, it’s gonna be because of you. Because you cared.” She cleared her throat awkwardly. “You uh...you can ask me questions, if you have any. I know all this is...strange. And lived experience can tell you certain things a book can’t.” She offered him a smile, her fear weighing on her softness. Please don’t think less of me for this.

Orion laughed nervously. Was that Morgan being offended? Or Morgan making a joke. A few seconds later and Morgan smirked at Rio, hopefully confirming that it had been a joke instead. “A faun.” Rio repeated, mostly to himself. He was still processing. Rio appreciated the information. He was taking mental notes, making sure to remember all of the information that he was learning about zombies. Maybe he would head back to the building tomorrow, start digging through his books for some information on the undead. The whole thing seemed like Alain’s side, but Rio knew better than to trust a hunter’s point of view when it came to the supernatural. Rio knew from personal experience that those teachings were biased. “I don’t- I usually don’t do that well around blood. But uh- I don’t want to make you do this stuff by yourself.” Morgan opened the board for questions. And boy, did Rio have questions. Way more questions than he possibly knew how to order and ask. “I- I have questions. But right now seems like the wrong time, y’know? With her… in the state she is in.” He sighed. Just another person in this town that has been through some awful experience that Rio wasn’t able to help prevent.

Morgan nodded and watched the woman eat. It might’ve been faster to let her have her hands back, but Morgan remembered the complete haze around her mind when she woke into her feeding frenzy. She hadn’t even known her own name, much less ‘eating people bad.’ If the wrong person had been in the room, she probably would’ve done everything she could to tear them to bits. “Anyone tell you lately what a good kid you are?” She asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she hoped nonetheless that someone was encouraging his generosity. Even if he could probably stand to get less squeamish. In time, the groans of the woman changed. Morgan gestured for Rio to stay back and made her way slowly over.

There was hardly anything left of the faun, but just enough that Morgan couldn’t stop herself from reaching into its ruined skull and scooping out its small black eyes and the thin tissue of its cheek muscle to munch on. She knelt down near the woman, still working the flesh in her mouth. “Hey,” she said, gently as she could with her mouth half full. “Can you talk? Are you good now?” The woman groaned and dashed herself into the red stained grass, angling her mouth for the rest of the faun. “Okay! Not feeling the impulse control. That’s okay! But I’m gonna need like...one intelligible word before you get this carcass.”

“Mmmhh. Aaarr...oh..k-kay.”

Blessed universe she was okay.

Morgan went around and loosened her bonds enough for her to wriggle free and stepped back as she held the faun and the scraps of flesh she hadn’t devoured yet as if they were all the treasure in the world. “You...shouldn’t...have done this,” she panted.

“I don’t see why not, Morgan replied. “What’s your name?”

The woman sucked the last remnants of life from the faun’s ribs and reached for a scattering of brain bits to shove into her mouth. “Ashley,” she said at last. “I didn’t--” She paused to swallow. As she wiped the mess from her chin she caught sight of the blood and mess on her hands, matching Morgan’s and then some. “I didn’t ask for any of this,” she said through gritted teeth. “Not any of this, you idiots.” And then she was sprinting downhill, stumbling and falling over her own feet but never stopping, the dead animal still tucked in her arms. Morgan reached for her, but caught only the edge of her torn hiking vest. It fell right off, like it had been waiting to all along.

“It hurts sometimes, being like this, Rio,” she said, hanging her head as Ashley disappeared from sight. “Even when you have everything you need, it can still hurt.” There wasn’t any point in tracking her down again, not when Rio could get hurt, and he had done so much already. She willed herself to look up and gave him the saddest apologetic smile. “Sorry you got sucked into this. What were you up to before anyway?”

Orion felt the heat burning his cheeks as the blush came on. Good kid. They weren’t unfamiliar words, not anymore. But they still warmed him each time he heard them. He supposed being starved for acceptance and praise did that to a kid. “Uh- I get told that more so recently than ever before. But uh- Thank you.” Whether or not she was expecting an answer, Rio thought it would be rude to just not thank her for the compliment.

Over time, Rio witnessed first hand how the almost primal hunger seemed to die down from the woman. Slowly, her eating became less frantic and more of that of a human that had not eaten in days. Morgan was fearless, strolling right up to her. Though he supposed death probably helped to quell many of the fears that Rio felt right now.

The zombie- Ashley- seemed confused. Scared, even. And despite what the two had done to help her, Ashley took off the moment she was comprehensive and scurried off down the hill, leaving Rio and Morgan by themselves. And all of that fear and anguish that Rio could see in Ashley’s face, must have been similar to what Morgan had been through. Her words were raw, her smile doing nothing to mask the sadness or pain present in her voice. This was her life now. Something she was forced to deal with in order to stay alive. Or re-alive, which wasn’t actually a word but would have to apply for this situation. “You helped her. Even though she couldn’t see it right now… you just protected people from potentially getting hurt. And you protected her from making a terrible mistake. That’s… incredible.” Rio breathed, realizing only now that he had been holding his breath the entire time. “I was just at the old Scribe building, heading home for the night when I heard the noises outside the cemetery.”

“Stars, I hope so,” Morgan sighed. She didn’t feel like she had done much. She had hoped to at least talk to someone else like her for a little longer, to ask what she really needed to get by for longer than a day or two. Who did she have? How had she starved so badly? All she had to go on was one torn up hiking vest and a name. She pushed the thought of Ashley to the back of her mind. Maybe she could put out a call online or ask the ghosts in the cemetery to keep an eye out, just in case she turned up here again or...something. But for now she was as good as lost.

Morgan exhaled. Without the need for air, her body retained most of its tension from the past hour until she worked consciously at it, slumping and rolling her neck and shoulders and arms. “You helped too, Rio. I wouldn’t have been able to manage her by myself. Come on,” she urged gently. She held out an arm, beckoning him close, imagining a one armed hug to calm his nerves. Then she saw the blood on her hands and thought better on it. She let it fall limp at her side and wiped it down on her skirt. “I appreciate that you tried. That counts for something. Let’s get you home, okay?”

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