The Cannibal Within by Mark Mirabello Page A

her bosom. Her hungry babies—cowering in the shadows of her colossal breasts—are forced to lick the blood from her nipples.
    ‘Milk is for infants,’ she declares, as she watches her twins feed on the crimson fluid. ‘Blood is for adults.’
    What Happens When The Monsters Grow Teeth The twins live on blood until they grow teeth. Most transhumans have a full set of teeth by the age of one year.
    Once they have teeth, the children can then eat raw meat and brain. In another venerable rite, the ‘Sacrament of the First Flesh,’ the child is given his first meat with these words: ‘This victim dies so that you may live. In all future time, do this in remembrance of him.’
    The whole ceremony is carried out with great solemnity. Their ‘first kill,’ like our ‘first love,’ is a life-shaping experience. The first time in anything, they believe, has a kind of magical efficacy.
    The victim for the ‘sacrament of the first flesh’ is carefully selected. He must be strong, healthy, and unblemished, and must belong to the master species. As the highest of all organisms, transhumans make the best of all possible food.
    To guarantee that the first meat is perfect, it is the custom of the transhumans to feed one of the twins to the other. The smaller or less energetic sibling is eaten by the stronger.
    In this first meal—a grisly ritual death—no food is wasted. The sibling chosen to survive is first starved for a few days (to insure he eats with enthusiasm and desire), and then he is fed his brother piece by piece, starting with the extremities.
    To keep the meat alive and fresh, the victim is slowly dismembered over several days. Non-fatal mutilations come first—all critical organs are kept intact and alive as long as possible—but ultimately the dying twin is tortured to death. In effect, he dies ‘a death from a thousand cuts.’
    This evil feast—the supreme outrage of fratricidal cannibalism, of sibling devouring sibling—helps a transhuman child to grow up intelligent, strong, tenacious, and purposeful.
    Later Childhood Of The Monsters
A transhuman child has the intelligence and strength of a human (‘simian man’) adult by the age of four. Although they are still considered children by their own species, they are old enough to hunt humans in our surface world.
    After making a pact with a sanguinary god named Az, the neophyte joins his first predatory band. Like wolves, the transhumans form aggressive hunting packs.
    From the older hunters, the novice learns his craft. After mastering the technique of moving by night and attacking by surprise, the novice learns the locations of the exits to man’s world, the typography of the ‘killing fields,’ and the peculiar vulnerabilities of the human race.
    Early in his education, the novice is also taught how to identify the distinctive scent of preferred victims. The sense of smell—the most emotive of all senses—is hypersensitive in transhumans, and at a great distance—with their nostrils quivering like those of hounds sniffing their prey—they can detect the fresh scent peculiar to healthy, lesion-free humans.
    The adults also teach the neophytes the art of culling the human herd. Strays—individuals travelling in isolated districts at night—are the most convenient victims, but any large gathering of people—soldiers in battle, devotees at prayer, spectators at concerts or sporting events—are opportunities for feeding. When thousands of human strangers mass together, they never seem to notice the disappearance of four or five people at the edges.
    Puberty
At the age nine years, the transhuman enters puberty. From that age, they have a ‘duty to breed.’
    Although these perverse beings are pansexuals—they will mate with any species and any gender—their first sexual encounter is always a frightful orgy with their own fathers. The incest taboo, which is common among lower animals, is unknown among these monsters.
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