"Her life was over. Completely over.", Miriam thought to herself. There was no way it was possible for her to even look the beast in the eyes, let alone fight it with her group. She went into LINE to check what her friends were talking about. Ruth was trying to be funny again. She put the group chat photo as a cartoon drawing of the beast they were encountering soon.
[Why, would you guys do this?] – Miriam 19:10
[Do what?] – Ruth 19:11
[You know what I am talking about Ruth, I hate you!] – Miriam 19:11
[☹ Ok, ok sorry, But fr we gotta do something abt it] – Ruth 19:12
[We should cook for it.] – Gabrielle 19:12
[Huh?] – Miriam 19:12
[What you on bro?] – Amar 19:12
[hahahahahaha] – Ruth 19:12
[Think about it. It looks big and strong and hungry, It probably needs food. And we were selected because we made food right?] – Gabrielle 19:13
[You have a point. But what do we make?] – Amar 19:14
[Something violent] – Miriam 19:14
[I mean blood was a bit too much, but let's look at what we made. It was a stew.] – Gabrielle 19:15
[And no one even tasted it, probably was tasty] – Ruth 19:15
[RUTH!] – Miriam 19:15
[I think we should make something Lions-like.] – Gabrielle 19:16
[Like human meat?] – Ruth 19:16
[Maybe monkey meat then, to replace with human meat.] – Amar 19:16
[We should get some juicy meat instead of some unhealthy like human meat, from the beast's perspective] – Gabrielle 19:17
[Fair enough, let's do deer, as lions do like deer.] – Amar 19:17
[I can get the ingredients] – Miriam 19:17
She just had to convince her dad to get the ingredients. But her convincing dad was the only problem. On the one hand, she was thinking of running away from home, and second, she needed her parents to solve the ingredients issue.
Over the dinner, Miriam asked her parents this question bluntly,
"Dad, can I get free deer?", she asked.
"Poaching is banned, so it is quite hard to get one. Why would you want one?", her dad asked back.
"It's for a recipe I have to make with my friends?", she replied casually trying to probe at it.
"If you show it to me, I will help you get the deer.", her dad replied.
So now her friends had to make a recipe that would satisfy her father to get the deer. It was a tall task, but they had experimented with food quite a lot and had Gabrielle. They had to finish it quickly to cope with a predicament.
Amar had already started thinking about what would happen if they couldn't make the recipe or even if they did it didn't work. Precautions are better than cures was his life motto. Would it be wrong to inform the army? He wondered why the HUB had been secret for so long. They would surely have more living beings from Earth, right? And how was Gourmet Paradise related to the HUB? He had many questions in his mind. He finally went on 4chan for this. They were already in this much danger; it couldn't get worse surely from here.
A day after he posted, a lot of comments came from this story like
[*confused noises*] [What's this mess of a story?] [paranormal board is becoming cringe] etc.
He didn't mind this. It was for the better only. He just wanted someone who knew about such a situation to reply to him. Wait.. living beings?
Is it necessary for the HUB to only have sentient beings? What about nonsentient? Where was that beast coming from? He also read a comment like:
[The multiverse is real!]. This was an examination he really couldn't prepare for. He had to rely on his friends to overcome it.