Ras rolled his eyes and continued carving. "It kept food on the table when your mother was still up hiding on her island. I have plenty of money but that doesn't always mean I have time or the right suppliers to our meat stocked up. Now that we have our ice box I really only get spider meat to prepare certain dishes because real meat gets too tough when it's cooked for a long time." He shook his head and sighed. "That's not how spiders kill things, dear. It was all in your head. They bite you to poison you which makes you weak or kills you, then they wrap you up in their webs while the poison turns your guts to liquid and they drink that. They're also not aggressive unless they're hungry, usually they just set web traps and eat anything that stumbles in."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>