Marguerite is vexed. Anxious. Fingernails peel from the flesh that strip the bed of its sheeting, oblique and at varying lengths, gnashed betwixt befouled canines within. Terror begot from Jack's knuckle battering 'cross visage prompted obsequious care, however superfluous. Blankets parted; pillows fluffed; so long as matriarch could silence incessant protest in due time, she would caper 'round the ranch without care in the world, laughing and singing 'mong the bloodied swine carcasses ——— dinner, simply put.
❛ You must be starvin', dear. Bit o' gruel would be good for ya. Here; have a taste. ❜ Silver spoon nears, swollen with gray matter littered with larvae writhing atop one another. Marguerite carries a bowl to her breast.