Mom: "Hey kids. The local butcher is low on meat. Can some of you go to help him out"
You and some of your sibs immediately agree and go to him.
You don't know exactly, how you can help, but it's probably not that difficult.
When you arrive, he tells you all to come with him into his slaugher room.
Since there is no meat at all and also no kid, ready to be slaughtered, you already get an idea, how to help.
He takes one of your sibs, lies nem on the table and touches nem at the whole body.
The butcher: "Feels pretty good. You can stay"
Then he takes another one and does the same: "I don't think, I can use your meat. If you want, you can leave now. But if want to stay, you can help me in other ways"
He grins at nem. Ne stays.
He looks at you: "So, you'll be next. Are you ready?"
You get scared. You think about declining and going home instead.
But you can already imagine, when mom wants to talk to you about it and makes you feel guilty for disappointing the butcher.
So you at least let him check you.
When he touches you, he also touches your genital zone. It feels weird, how he touches you. You were never touched by a stranger there.
He: "We're already finished. You are fine. I'm happy you came"
You feel flattered, but also get scared again, when you think about what's coming next.
While you think about it, he checks your other sibs.
When he's done, you recognize that some of them went home again.
You don't know if they were already checked and if they were chosen.
The butcher: "So, we're finished. Let's start. Don't waste time. Who wants to be first?"
You don't want to be first, but some of your sibs seem hesitate.
One of them really seems happy and shouts "I'd like to".
The butcher: "It's awesome, when someone is that excited about it. This way my job is much more fun"
He lies nem back on the table again.
"Ne looks nice, too. If you want, you can leave the room for now. It may get messy.
It's enough if the next one comes back in about an hour. The rest can go for today. Two in one day are enough.
Who wants to be next?"
You think about it. It's nice that you can go home again.
You could play your favourite video game with your best friend again. You really liked it, but didn't finish it yet. After finishing, you would show nem, who's the number one gamer.
But when you think about it, you probably wouldn't be able to enjoy playing. You would just worry about your turn at the butcher. When worrying too much, you also wouldn't win, so this would just be ashaming.
So you rather just stay here and be the next, so you can get over it as quick as possible.
The butcher still seems to wait for a voluntary.
"I'll be the next"
The butcher: "Fine, so everyone else may go home now, and you, if you don't want to stay, come back in about an hour"
"I get it, see you"
You try to smile at him and go away. Besides the one on the table, two sibs seem want to stay.
 As long as you are outside, you play with some of your sibs and some friends you meet.
After some time you think, you should go back, and leave them.
When entering the butchers shop, you already see your sib in the showcase for the meat.
Nir arms and legs are missing, but the rest of the body is unharmed.
Nir eyes are closed as if ne's just sleeping.
When looking at the meat next to nem, it's the first time you recognize, that the pieces seem to form another body.
So everytime you ate meat from the butcher, you might have eaten some part of a friend.
You never thought about that, except when you ate some of your friends at home. But you helped preparing nem yourself and knew, who it was, so it's different.
However, since noone is there, you should go back again into the saughter room.
You look again at your sib, but now nir eyes are open. You wonder, what's going on.
Ne starts to grin and starts talking "Hey, so you're back"
You: "Oh, I thought, you were already slaughtered"
"No, not really. Some people like to buy a body whole, so I can stay alive for a while"
"Isn't it weird to lie here and wait for someone to order you?"
"It's fine. It's a bit cold, but I start to like it. The customers are looking at me and seem to like me. But they chose to pick some of the already cut parts"
"So if noone wants to buy your whole body, you'll have to be cut into pieces, too..."
Ne starts to look sad: "It seems so"
You think, you should go to the butcher now, but you are still scared.
"What happened to your limbs?"
"The butcher cut them and is making sausage out of them now. Maybe you can have a try"
"I don't even want to"
Ne's looking sad: "Oh"
"Did it hurt, when your limbs were removed?"
"Yeah, first it hurt, but now I feel more relaxed than ever"
"Weren't you scared first?"
"Not really. I was happy to be the first and exited, how it feels. But I have to admit, when I was already lying on the table and the butcher was ready to cut me, I got slightly scared"
Ne starts to laugh embarresed.
You: "That's nothing to be ashamed of. I'm already scare now"
"But you don't have to be scared. As said, after an initial pain, it will even feel good"
You want to go on talking, but ne stops you by saying "Now go. Maybe we'll be able to talk later, when none of us is dead yet"
 You start to go to the slaughter room. You wonder, that your sib really isn't scared. You wanted to ask nir what ne thinks about being dead soon. That's what you really are scared of.
When you enter the room, the butcher is already waiting.
He: "I just finished cleaning a few minutes ago and had some time to rest now. So good, you are here now. Are you ready?"
"I guess so"
Ne takes you up, touching you between your legs, and puts you onto the table.
The butcher: "Do you still want to stay alive for some time? Else I would just cut your head off, first. This will simplify cleaning and cutting. But I can also just cut off your limbs first as I did with your sib"
You immediately interrupt him without thinking about it: "I want to stay alive for a bit"
When thinking about it, you are not sure if you really want this. It will be over soon anyway, so you wonder, why you should endure this situation at all. What's going to happen is something, you could do without. But being dead that fast is just too scary to you, so you don't dare saying anything.
He: "Fine, I'll have to clean you first"
He goes to the basin and brings some special shower.
He: "This may hurt a bit"
The jet coming out of the shower really hurts a bit. Then he even sticks it into your ass, which even hurts more.
He: "Now you are clean from the outside and the inside. Let's go on"
He starts to tie you on the table using some belts fixed at the table, you didn't recognize before.
When you almost cannot move anymore, he takes a sharp, long knive and cuts one of your arms. It's not cut in one go and it hurts very much. But when it's removed, it starts to get better. You even start to like the feeling.
The other limbs are gone in almost no time and you really start to feel relaxed after the pain is gone.
He didn't cut your bones. They aren't that hard, but may cause splinters in the meat. Not much blood is coming out of your cuts, too.
The butcher: "So, we're almost finished. When no blood comes out anymore, I can take you out of here"
He starts to clean your wounds and tries to accelerate the healing a bit.
The butcher: "Is everything fine?"
You aren't sure, what to say. When starting to talk, you cannot stay calm:
"No, I'm really scared now. It's scary when thinking about what will happen soon. I don't really want to be dead"
"But you still came to help. I really appreciate that"
"I know, this doesn't make me feel better"
He continues doing things while talking:
"You're not the first kid like that. It's nothing special to be dead. Everyone will die some day, even without being food, like me. I'll just cut off your head and soon you're dead. Really nothing special. Afterwards it's just as if nothing ever happened. Everything that happens in this world will not be important to you anymore. You will be no more, so why be scared? Before you existed, you couldn't be scared either. Being dead couldn't be a problem to you. You can be happy. I will have to do this weird job for quite a time. But if you are that scared, I'll just cut your head off and you don't have to worry anymore"
He takes his knive again.
You: "Stop! I still want to live a bit"
"Fine, let's do it later, then. For now, you are finished"
 He brings you outside to the showcase.
An old woman is already there to serve some customers.
A single head lies on her cutting board. It looks like the head of your sib.
You are lied into the showcase and look at the body of your sib.
"What are you looking" ne says. You look up nir head and see, ne's still living. The head you saw before wasn't nirs.
"Oh, I thought, it was already your turn"
"No, not yet. But probably soon. Most of the other meat is gone"
"You're not scared of being dead soon?"
"Not really. Should I?"
"I'm scared. Didn't you like your life?"
"I did, but now it's over again. Were you scared when leaving the amusement park?"
"Not really, but kind of sad"
"Yeah, I'm a bit sad, too. But now I feel pretty relaxed, so I don't mind. Don't you feel relaxed?"
"Only a bit, I'm too sacred"
You see some customers. They inspect your naked body pretty accurately, which also doesn't take away your fears. But you kind of like this kind of fear.
Your sib: "I'm not that sad anymore. I'm rather happy, I can help"
"You're right, I should be happy, too. When cooking some of the guests at some kids party, the meal also was happy to be chosen and I was happy to get such a good meal. I shouldn't make such a big deal out of it"
You look at your sib again, but ne's not there anymore.
You hear the old woman talking to the customer and look at her.
Your sib is lying on the cutting board.
The woman: "So, cutie, now it's time. Only cutting the ribs will hurt too much, so I have to kill you first. Are you ready?"
Your sib nods and uncertainly smiles at her. Ne probably still tries to be enthusiastic about it, but probably didn't expect it to go that fast.
A few moments later, the head is removed, the few blood coming out is cleaned, and then it's put back next to you.
You look at the face. Ne still looks alive and seems to watch you, until ne falls asleep.
You feel sad and get more scared again.
Even if you helped preparing some of your sibs and saw them die, this time it's different. It's not, that you had a special relationship to nem or something.
Maybe it's because you know, something like this is going to happen to you, too. Maybe it's because ne was that excited until the end. Maybe you think, ne regrets the decision in the end. Maybe it happened just too suddenly.
While thinking about this, you still look at nir face, now looking very lifeless. The customer is already gone and the woman puts the rest of your sibs meat next to nir face, already cut into smaller chunks.
 You see some kids entering the shop. You know all of them. One of them is a pretty good friend.
They come nearer and look at you.
They are surprised, that you are there alive, and talk about it. Most of the time, when coming in, the meat is already dead.
One of the kids, a pretty mean one, starts to talk:
"Hey, so you are meat now. I'd really like to have you. You can imagine, what I'd like to do to you, before you die"
You get angry at nem: "I don't let you do anything to me. Please go"
"We'll see"
Ne goes away and leaves the shop.
You are surprised, ne just went away now, but you fear the worst.
Your friend: "Hey, I didn't expect you here. I hoped to meet you in other circumstances. But nice to see you again, anyway"
"Thanks"
"I still wanted to show you, that I can beat you at our game. I trained a lot recently. But without arms it won't work anymore, even if I get you out of here"
"If you get me out of here, they might regrow after some time. Do you want to buy me? Even if you don't want to wait, until I regrow, I would prefer to be food for you and your family, not for that meanie"
"No, we don't have much money. I assume, they'll sell me anyway in the next time"
"Oh, too bad"
"But if some of my friends wants to buy you, I might get some of you. Maybe they even allow me to wait, until your arms regrow, but don't get your hopes up too high"
The mean kid comes back with an adult.
The kid: "Hehe, my dad is going to buy you. I'm already looking forward, what I'm doing to you, before you become our meal"
You think, you should have taken the easier way, and just get killed by the butcher, when he was ready to.
The meanie: "So, who of you wants to help me, when having fun with that kid?"
Your friend reluctantly agrees, looking at you, while you already get pulled out of the showcase and given to the father of the kid.
Your friend seems to be happy, ne might be able to help you.
When the father carries you out of the shop, both kids follow.
You hear them talking.
Your friend: "How did you get your father buy my friend?"
"It wasn't difficult. He just said, I'm first, when the times are bad"
Then you leave the butchers shop, probably for the last time, and hope, the end won't be that hard.