Status Updates From Cabaret in Flames

Starting to lose my interest somewhat. There needs to be more backstory and conflict explanation/development, because I still don’t really get what the stakes are and why it matters.

Whooooa, liking so far!

Oh, this is going to have to be a physical purchase when it's out, isn't it?

I already enjoy where this is going. If only I was more awake

"All the tables had crystal bowls with raw meat ribs organized like refined appetizers, as well as mortars with crushed bone. Friedrich sometimes dipped his thumb in the bone dust and licked it, laughing as he talked to a quiet Anzol."

Yum

"At the drugstore, she bought painkillers and candy bars, and her eyes wandered to the condoms in the aisle across from the clerk. Maybe I should . . . The thought left as soon as it came; she wasn’t even sure if it would make any difference, as Erik had never mentioned hybrid children..."

I can't get over the cannibal vampire fucking

"He had explained that while he was flattered, he was too old, and she was still recovering."

What is happening

“...Now, eating children is not exactly taboo among guls. It’s mostly the kind of thing we agree you should not look for.”

Bruh??

"Pregnancies, said Minotauro, were a risky business at her age. [...] Maybe in the future, he had said, but I don’t want you to die, not now, not now."

We got pedophile vampires now?????

"Quaint was eating her, but she didn’t feel pain; she wanted him inside of her, again, again, slamming her body against the desk."

EATING her AND FUCKING her? ???

'“Augusto came from Mozambique to eat slavers, but ended up staying.”

“And you went to France to eat Nazis.”'

Oh

"Part of her, a detached and curious part that didn’t want to pretend she wasn’t there, wanted to know what kind of person he ate, and if that would have any effect on his health."

😐😐😐

"How she had craved Erik’s attention, and despised him for giving her a life she never asked to have. A life where she was not wanted—he wanted me before—where she was not touched—why can’t you touch me? I only exist if you touch me—where she was only a child—why now, why not then?"

I thought he was her boss/adopted dad?? What is happening??

"Only then did she notice volume in her abdomen that should not have been there. Her belly was large and round, her breasts swollen and heavy, her knees seared with pain. No, she thought, horrified, scratching the stretched skin to remove whatever had invaded her gut."

Bro wtf??? 😩😩

"On the screen, an adviser answered questions in front of the Civil House, his right hand held close to his chest, all fingers gone except the thumb. Every other secretary seemed to be missing a limb, nowadays."

????

"Ms. Terebê opened the minibar and took a blood bag from it. She had several stocked inside, her own personal blood bank inside the comfort of her house, along with bone broth and several plastic boxes containing pureed meat. According to Terebê, everything was provided by friends who worked at local hospitals and morgues, but Ariadne never tried to check the veracity of this claim, and never would."

Lady what

"Their diet consisted of flesh, blood, and bones of humans like herself, but Ariadne felt safer with them around."

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