I'd had a small appetite increase after the first merge, but we'd just put that down to replacing blood then to normal adolescence. This increase was ...ore substantial, and its also coinciding with the second merge made it obviously a related effect.We decided that we were probably burning more energy from the four minds' worth of thinking that was going on. An MRI of our brain would probably blow its dials! We remembered hearing somewhere that the brain uses about 20% of the body's energy.. ’ Spindly-legged spiders seemed to suddenly crawl over Poppy’s skin and his face went porcelain-pale. ‘Oh — um — er — I’m not free. Y-you have to pay me first.’ Horace paused. ‘Pay you? Are you on the game?’ His voice registered confusion and disappointment. The bitch-boy wore frocks and was as queer as a lead shilling, but he hadn’t countered on him being a professional dick-pleaser. Poppy looked him in the eye. ‘I may be a tranny but I still like to spend money.’ He held out his hand. ‘Ten. George inhaled deeply and Alex giggled and reached down to pat the growing lump in his trousers, "I said you couldn't touch, I didn't say anything about me." She repeated her actions for everyone in the room, doing me last. She still hadn't looked me in the eyes and when I reached out to grab her and pull her down in my lap and ask her just what in the hell she was doing she slapped my hand away, "No touching, and that includes you."She danced over to the dining room table and got a candle out. I realised that no amount of air freshener and open windows was going to stop the bedroom from smelling like a brothel so I stripped all the linen from the bed again. I bundled it up in my arms and carried it to the laundry, almost getting high on the delicious smell coming off them.“God damn it, Kat. What have you done to me? I'm getting wet again.”I spoke to the world at large but there was no one there to respond. Even the Angel and the Devil had gone quiet again for now. I put the load of.