Aurora 2021 Mag

Maverick Schmidt

and draining their victims entirely of blood. I think we finally know what we’re dealing with here. DOG Are you kidding? CAT About what? DOG A bit of a stretch, don’t you think? CAT And which part of that description, specifically, was inaccurate? DOG The part where you implied that a rabbit was a vampire. CAT Are you blind? It doesn’t move all day. Then as all in the house are asleep, our stores are completely depleted! Vanished! You explain to me what is happening with our vegetables! Night after night, we are robbed. Our family is being murdered—one greenery at a time! It may not mean much to you, but we’ll see just how ridiculous all of this sounds when your masters have finally given in to starvation and you’re left to the same fate! DOG Cat— CAT Do you not care about our family? DOG Of course I do, but— CAT Can’t you see? It’s simple economics. They must pay to replace each and every single murdered vegetable they didn’t get to consume. They are losing more and more veggies by the night. How can they keep up? They can’t. Eventually they will run out of money and therefore can no longer afford food. Any food. This leaves them with two options: they can consume us or

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