Chapter 33: Reverse Psychology, Reversed! (1/2)

As I walked into the room, I noticed that Nushi was sitting on the bed, and her horns had barely even grown, and I frowned. I remember how adamant she had been about her horns growing back fast, so I was a bit confused.

They had already cleared the books off one of the three tables Nushi had around her room, so I was able to finally set the plate of different kinds of meat. I had to get some pointers on cooking some of the giant bug parts for Jilly.

I was hesitant about even cooking the giant ants, but Lidy had told me that I would get special points with Jilly if I cooked these for her. Mary was easy, and I only had to fry up some rabbit meat, and Lidy told me I could have just fed it to her raw, but I wanted to see if she and the snakes liked it better cooked.

Cera, Bera, and Riez just got big thick steaks, but I had cooked them just past blue, and they were still full of blood and juices. I had also asked Lidy what Nushi ate, and she had said to just cook one of the steaks longer and cut it up for her.

After I was done placing the plater down, the Cerberus girls and Jilly started to dig in and made delighted moans as they ate. I called Nushi over, and she ignored me at first and buried her face in a book she had only just started to read.

”I cut you up some steak into small pieces and cooked it longer. I have it set off to the side on the platter for when you want to come and join us,” I said as I took a seat in one of the chairs that were around the table.

Nushi continued to ignore me, so I turned my attention to the beauty that was moving around me to settle comfortably in my lap and lean back against me. I was warmly reminded of the alone time that we had spent together in the canyon as I scoped the rabbit meat into my bowl of tubers.

I held the bowl with one hand in front of me from Mary to pick from, and with my other hand, I started to grab the smaller pieces of meat and feed them to Mary's snakes. They each eagerly waited for turns as I fed the patiently waiting snakes.

The Cerberus girls would hold a piece of meat up to their three heads, and then they would take turns taking bites. I was curious about how they decided how to move, but that would be something that I went over with them before we left.

Jilly grabbed the softball-sized sections of giant ant abdomen and popping was them into her mouth like theory were candy. I had to stop watching her eat when Jilly started to bite the legs off one at a time.

During the time I was watching the other girls and feeding the snakes, Nushi had been moving across to the edge of her bed. I could tell that she wanted to come and eat with the rest of the girls, but her stubbornness prevented her from it.

”You know, I don't think that you would like this meat,” I said nonchalantly, making Nushi pull her nose out of the book and glared at me.

”Oh? And why not? How do you know what I like and don't? Maybe I would like it!” Nushi said defiantly as she fell neatly into my trap.