Drabble - “Choice Morsels”
Choice Morsels
Fandom: Buffy
Spoilers: none (basically the entire series)
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The Hellmouth savors the young.
All ages die here, of course. But when the victim is young, with so much life still ahead, the Hellmouth … laughs.
Maybe because it’s the young who fight it most effectively. Not all, no, not remotely. The ones who make the greatest mark, though? bloom still fresh on the rose.
This Hellmouth has swallowed two Slayers. And the third was so close, before her coma lifted … but of course the second one died twice, which helps. (And came back twice, which doesn’t.)
Oh, yes, the Hellmouth loves the young.
And hungers for more of them.