❀ Memory 05: Trivial Neutral

[mysong]

Newborn humans are chewy

Earned: Day 146 afternoon from Three's elevator game.
Taken: n/a
Shareable: Yes. 8/8 uses.
Form: Gold coin. There is a smiling woman's face on one side, a frowning face on the other.


The Memory Itself
Youtube LP: start to 2:34; only the end bit is relevant to this particular memory but I love the whole thing so you're GETTING IT ALL.

True Scaaaary Stories: Hospital Edition
Chapter 4: The Monster in the University Hospital

Elite university hospital research student K-san relates his shocking experiences! Will you believe him or not?

Strange things started happening at our hospital around the end of last spring.

Many times, patients would wake in the middle of the night screaming about nightmares. They all said that they had seen something unbelievably terrifying in their dreams, and many of them had to be sedated before they would sleep again. Some patients even transferred to other hospitals because of it.

The weird thing was that all of the patients had had exactly the same dream -- a dream about some horribly disgusting monster standing by their bed and staring down at them......

But the really strange stuff started happening after that.

There used to be a lot of stray cats hanging around the campus, looking for scraps from the students.

One day, the cats suddenly started disappearing, and it wasn't that they'd stopped coming. It was more like they'd vanished from the area entirely.

And then people stopped walking their dogs around. According to rumors, it wasn't that the owners were taking their dogs elsewhere, but that the dogs were refusing to go anywhere near the school.

Eventually, things started going missing in the hospital.

Organs, to be precise.

Organs that had been harvested for transplants kept disappearing from where they were being stored. Some people even came close to losing their jobs over it. And it wasn't just two or three times that it happened. They tried to keep it from the research students, but we heard that it was a lot worse than that.

People started spreading rumors that there was something living in the hospital.

The janitors would find strange messes that could only have been made in the middle of the night: traces of something that had crawled down the hallway, or weird stains on the walls that seemed to be caused by something dripping through the ceiling.

Lots of the late-shift nurses talked about hearing strange noises on the same days that patients had screamed about nightmares.

There's one last story, one you can never mention inside the hospital.

One day, the obstetrics department went totally crazy.

They said that a newborn had disappeared in the night.

If it were true, the police would've come and it would've been all over the news, but they say the big shots managed to make it all go away. It's just a rumor, of course.

These strange incidents suddenly stopped towards the end of the summer.

Now there are almost no patients complaining of nightmares, and the cats have started coming back to campus.

But, still, what happened in the hospital that summer? Even now, just thinking about it gives me the creeps.

What Saya learns:

❧ Newborns are for eating.
❧ Tasty!
❧ Though it seems to make humans panic when newborns go missing. Hmm...

What this means:

More confusion as to what is or isn't acceptable for eating. Hopefully someone will...clarify this at some point. '-'b