Elsewhere...<br/><br/>Andalun was half way through his tanuki burger, and chewing slowly at the latest bite, letting the flavours run together on his tongue. Kuroni wasn't saying anything coherent, but her mental responses indicated she was thouroughly enjpying the sensation too.<br/><br/>He swallowed, and thought,<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  Was it good for you?  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  Was and is TRS-chan! You have to try this! You're so warm and cozy inside,and those stomach acids are like bathing in fizzy water. It tickles!  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  Uh... I probably don't have the cobntrol of my physiology, even with you tweaking it, to experience it like that. That's probably you digesting.  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  Yup, me and the bread and the veggies. Don't worry, even your souped up stomach isn't going to do much to me before I reform.  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  I should hope not, the balancing thing you do always leaves me feeling itchy.  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  Well I have to recover my original mass somehow. For anything that's too bound up in your metabolism, I have to do a one to one switch with some other meat. Don't worry, there's a dozen pounds of raw beef in one of the coolers, so I have plenty to work with.  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  I know all that. Damn the proinciple of equivalent exchange! Well, the sooner I finish the less time you have to digest.  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/>He took another big bite and started chewing.<br/><br/>Kuroni started squeaking again.<br/><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0;padding: 0;border: 0;"><div style=" background-color: #FFEBD5;color: #000000; -moz-border-radius: 16px; -webkit-border-radius: 16px; border: 1px solid #FFFFFF; padding: 4px;font-size: 1em;">  Yes! Ahh... ohh...  </div><img src="./images/think.gif"/></td></tr></tbody></table>