busted invite flickers overhead, steam misting through lamp’s orange. boy floats within a sea of muck and paper, gunk and peel. a shard of old bone caught between sharp teeth, he gnaws happy. footsteps are pinpricks in sensitive ears, lashes flutter as do gills. tucker bo sinks, eyes rim the edge of dumpster with a coy gorgeousness, observing SILENT and GHOSTED, a male. wherever he is, he considers his domain, feels threatened but nature overrules paranoia and girls do far more worse to his mood than boys. membranes blink and then another set, voids full blown as he sucks on marrow. energy is promising. PREDATOR OF PURITY. he feeds off the young.