The sentence of Hunger

After arriving and giving Gilda a room in the base, Hunger decided that it was time to take a shower and finally go to sleep, like the rest of the base, his bedroom was empty and devoid of emotions, it was smaller than the other rooms of the house or the barracks, the only thing that was there was a lone sheet with a pillow.

Celestia had said that if he wanted some comfort he should buy a bed himself, in the beginning, he did not even have a sheet or a pillow, he had made them himself, it was true that he could just sleep in the barracks, but he felt more at peace like this, it reminds him of home.

The nights were cold and lonely, but he was used to it, after resting his tired body on the cold stone floor he proceeded to cover himself with the hidden hand that he had on his back. it was very odd of him to actually rest, to tell the truth, he needed very little sleep, that he told himself every time he thought of resting, but the truth was that he hated sleeping, even when his mind was falling apart thanks to the sleep depravation, he waited to the very last moment to go to sleep, in the hope that his tired mind would not dream.

But he did not have such luck.

Sweating profusely as he kicked and mumbled to himself, he suddenly felt a presence enter his body, an uninvited presence, the adrenaline gave him enough mental strength to disperse his dream before she could see it.

Then when all there was to see was a black void, he saw her, the one guilty to make him arrive at this outcome, the one responsible for the new demon invasion, the princess of the night.

"Princes Luna..."

Princess Luna smiled to hunger, she was two heads taller than him, her starry mane shining with many constellations and her beautiful dark blue coat appeared to shine even with no light, she had a serene smile planted on her face "A, THOU HAS TO BE THE ONE THAT MY SISTER AND BAT PONYS HAD TOLD ME AB-".

Before she could keep speaking, Hunger heard how a loud clap sounds in his ears, fallow by his screams of agony, in desperation he tried to wake up, but it was futile "MOTHER FUCKER MY FUKING EARDRUMS, FUUCCCCKKKK" his own voice appears to be incredible muffled, while Luna seems to have been throw into a loop as she saw how Hunger writhes in pain on the ground, Tears coming from his eyes.

After shaking her head to get out of the stupor, Luna spoke and for some reason, Hunger was able to hear them "THOU SHOULD STOP, REMEMBER TIS JUST A DREAM".

Unexpected for the Princess, Hunger screams louder at the sudden explosion of sound directly to his brain "AND YOU SHOULD STOP SCREAMING".

"BUT WE-"

"I SAID STOP, I WILL TRY TO HEAL MY EARDRUMS BUT IT WOULD NOT HELP IF YOU BLOW THEM AGAIN"

Luna seems to doubt for a moment, but after a moment of thinking, she decides to humor him with a little trepidation in her voice "Very well, I shall not use the Royal canterlot voice"

Giving a sigh of relief, Hunger concentrated for a moment while he healed his broken eardrums, after a minute, he spoke "Now please do not speak directly to my mind, it is very weird, is like I would poke your brain to send you a message".

This time with more ease, she nodded "Very well, I'm fully aware of how it feels like somepony were to speak to thou head when your mind had been proved before, thus I shall not do tis if I can help it, but tis raises the question of how thou know how its feels like".

After seeing that she got the message, he stood up "long story short, someone prove my mind trying to find evidence that I was evil" After looking the princess in the eyes he felt a ping of regret in the chest, her ears were splayed to the back of her head and her face was deformed to one of pure regret, is true that he could not feel emotions in the dream realm, but her expression was pretty easy to read, after seeing that she was truly sorry he had to interfere with her sour expression "Hey princess, don't worry about it, it is my fault that my ears are so sharp that you manage to explode them, you probably couldn't have known that my ears were much more sensitive than a pony's ears"

He also had to admit that he felt pity for her, with all the "being sealed in the moon" stuff, which reminded him of his own experience.

This made her expression soften a little she still looked hurt "Thus may be true, but tis don't change the fact that a have hurt thou, Tis also added the fact that thou seems to know many pains that one so young like thou should not know"

Hunger blink a moment and proceeded to check himself over, to confirm that in fact he still looked like a young goat "shuuureee, but also you should know that having in mind where I work it kinda makes sense that I know how pain feels like"

Luna gave him a conflicted smile "Yes indeed, after all, your squad was badly hurt after they didn't hear thou, they were lucky to have such experimented young demon hunter"

Not really thinking Hunger started to noded to every word that Luna said "exactly, they were very lucky to su-" That was until he notice the meaning of these words "Wait, so you believe me?"

"Well, of course, sister insisted that we checked the mind of thou squad, thus I check for any sign of dark magic, but not only we did not find any, but Moon flare was adamant that you save them".

Hunger resisted giving a sigh of relief, he was happy that one of them believed what he said "Thank god, now if Celestia believed me it would be ideal, I'm getting tired of her sending me letters demanding that I tell the truth when I already told her all the truth I knew"

Luna gave him a sheepish smile "I'm sorry about that, my sister is usually a bit stubborn, but never tis much, she really believes that somehow thou changed their memories and thou were thy ones who hurt them for some reason".

Hunger scoffed "Sure, because I sure love being on thin ice" When he said the last part he made a face for a moment, but just as fast his face had gone back to normal.

Luna dropped her ears "I hope that thou get paid enough for thy troubles".

"Har har, very funny"

Luna tilts her head "What do thou mean?"

Hunger rises an eyebrow "what? are you saying that you don't know that she has not sent her "weekly" pay since we opened?".

Luna opened her eyes wide in disbelief "Tis a lie! it has to be!"

Hunger gave her a deadpan face "Luna, I don't know if you noticed, but it literally pains me to lie, I can't even maintain a straight face while I use sarcasm"

Luna blinked a little "tis... tis has to be also a lie... Right?"

Hunger keeps the face "ask me any obvious question and I will try to lie"

Luna seemed to bite her cheek for a moment, and after a moment she seem she could not resist "Do thou prefer my sister over me?"

Hunger combines a deadpan while he raises an eyebrow, Luna seems embarrassed about this, and when she was about to change the question Hunger responds "I prefer a loot your sister ove-" Suddenly the face of Hunger becomes green and he looks like he is about to puke, while he tries to scream in pain, ending making strange noises with his throat.

Luna seems skeptical for a moment and proceeds to concentrate for a moment while her horn sparks to light, Hunger feels the indistinguishable feeling that someone is proving his mind, he would try to resist, but he was in too much agony to do so.

Suddenly Luna let out a painful puke and instantly her horn goes off.

They stay there suffering for a while, one puking all over the black floor and the other trying to not do it, is not long before Hunger and Luna crumble into the ground, Luna in a fetal position and Hunger with his hooves over his mouth trying to keep the content of his stomach where they are supposed to be.

Luna is the first to recover "buck, How do Thou not puke? And why it is tis bad?!"

It took a while before Hunger manage to regain a little of his composure to respond "Believe... me... You do not... want me... to puke... also, the bigger the lie... the bigger is the reaction".

Luna manage to throw back nausea she felt when she heard that, blushing a little "ho... really?".

When Hunger saw her face, he kinda felt bad, is true that he prefers Luna over her sister, but the real reason he got that kind of reaction was that he REALLY hates Celestia, after all, 1 is much better than -100, he decided to play it safe, he just responded while he breaths hard "Yea, Having in mind that I don't need to sleep too much I really come to appreciate the night, actually, before you got free I kinda spoke to the moon when I was feeling alone, that was before I knew that you were there though, I kinda got embarrassed when I knew when you were there" funny thing, a half-truth is not a lie, true, he finds out that he liked the night thanks to the fact that he notices that he did not need to sleep, but also liked since demons get weaker in the day, that includes him.

Now fully smiling, Luna totally forgot the terrible time she got, she was about to hug him when something registered in her head "waits, what do thou mean don't need to sleep?"

Hunger rises his hoves in a placative manner "Woah, I did not say I do not need to sleep, I said I need to sleep very little, like eight hours every three to four days"

Luna's eyes widen "HOW!?".

Hunger try to cover what he hears, but he was too late "FUCK!", this time his eardrums didn't explode, but it was still painful, also the ringing sound did not help "It's thanks to my bloodline ok? I can control how fast cells degrade and how fast they operate" Luna still didn't seem to get it "Just... I will explain it better later, we are kinda going off track, I mean, now you know I was not lying when I told you that your sister still does not pay me right?"

Luna relax for a moment when she remembers what they were talking about, but then she frow "tis is weird, my sister is one of the most caring ponies that I know, why she would do that?".

"I'm not sure... well I think I know, but I'm bound by contract to not disclosure the finer details of my nature"

"what thou mean? shouldn't thou able to tell me? after all I'm her sister and a princess"

Hunger shook his head, then he flinched and blood got out of his nose, Luna's eyes got wide, and giving an annoyed sigh, he spoke " I can't say the details of the contract and even insinuate them" before long and torrent of blood started to escape Hunger nose, while small trickles of blood starter to appear in his mouth.

Luna could not take it anymore and proceeded to put her hof over his mouth, her face filled with worry "Do not speak anymore! these wounds are real..." she proceeded to furrow her eyebrows "if you keep it like tis thou shall really gonna bleed out!".

Hunger proceeded to take her hoof out of her face "I can't say anything about the contract, but I can say that it was not my ide-" His scleras started to become red "fuck, I was wrong... now I'm the fuking moron" Hunger fall to the ground, his eyes starting to cry tears of blood

Luna was incredibly confused, she could swear she knew these symptoms, then suddenly her eyes widens "tis cannot be! tis is wrong! we banned soul contract long ago! how could she do tis?!"

after coughing blood, he tried to get up "It's fine, is not permanent".

"YES, IT IS-" When she saw how Hunger fell to the ground in more pain, she stop herself, speaking more softly "it not only destroys pieces of Thy soul the more serious is Thy offend, but it also hurts your body!" He helps hunger stand up. "thou are in the dream realm, damage of the real world should not translate here!, the only reason I notice it was a soul contract was because of that! I shall speak with, my sister, at once!"

Hunger seems to be having trouble to breath "fuck, I think I'm drowning in my own blood, I need to wake up"

"Yes, Thou have, Do not fret, I shall speak-"

"No-!" Hunger tried to breathe, but it only caused his lungs to fill with more blood, cursing in his mind he ignored his body and keep talking "If she... finds out I said something... she gonna kill me!... and I'm kinda in the middle of something"

Luna shook her head "no, she wouldn't dare, she wouldn't do something like that!"

The vision of hunger started to darken "Like not doing a soul contract?!"

Luna flinched, "I... I understand... but I shall send your pay plus some money so you may go to the hospital, now wake up before you pass out!"

Before Hunger could say something more, he woke up.
~~~

when he woke up he noticed how he was on his back, confirming that he was drowning in his own blood, fast he moved to the side and proceed to puke all the blood that he had in his windpipe, then he noticed that he still had trouble breathing "Fuck... I have blood... in my lungs..." The hidden hand that he had on his back slowly stood up and grab the knife that he had under his pillow, and in an instant, he proceed to stab himself in his side.

blood shot out of his side as he cried out in pain, but then slowly began to drain, after taking his knife out, smoke started to get out of the wound, and very slowly the wound closed. after a while, he manages to regain his composure, and proceeds to do the same with his other side, finally finish he proceeds to clean the blood and tears that there were in his eyes, and he proceeded to rest on his back while having his hind legs apart.

He couldn't believe it, he almost died because of it, how could be so retarded? "I was so desperate for attention that I almost died just because I didn't want to be alone!?" he was mad, not because of Celestia or Luna, not because of the ponys, he was angry with himself for being unable to control himself.

when he was about to continue insulting himself, suddenly in a blue smoke a giant bag of bits appeared on him, his eyes opened wide, and before he could react the bag fell on his crotch, he almost scream because of the phantom pain, his eyes closed and he prepares himself for the incoming wave of pure hell... only to fell a small amount of pain. Surprised he open his eyes slowly and looked down... It was indeed in his crotch, weird, why didn't anything happen?.

He very slowly the same time he woke up, he remember something very important "...Right, no genitals... since I'm the only normal one who feels uncomfortable when someone sees his penis... thanks me from the past for taking away a weak point" He proceeded to grab the bag of bits, after confirming the amount he proceeds to put most of them on his mouth, then without chewing, he swallows "I swear, they are fuking weird".

Since he was unable to see the time of day (considering there were no windows) he proceeded to get up and look at the clock in the hallway.

"6 hours of sleep... good enough" After confirming the time, he proceeded to bathe and make breakfast for his guest.

~~~

Gilda woke up from the holy smell of beacon, not that trash of HAY beacon that dash usually make (and burns), but true and meaty delicious bacon, moving around in the bed she noticed that it was kinda stiff, giving a big yawn she proceeded to sit up and stretch with the eye closed "Hey Rainbow!, what is the occasion!? Since when do you know how to cook meat?!" When she opened her eyes she expected to see a house made of clouds and the light of a new day, but when she did open her eyes, she saw pure darkness.

Giving a small cry of surprise, she proceeded to look around, slowly the memories of the past day came to his head, and a voice in the distance yelled back "I'm not Rainbow and I cook meat since I was a little lad! Now move your ass over here before it gets cold!" Blinking hard, finally, she understood the situation, Looking around, she finally saw the nightstand and noticed the flashlight that Hunger had given her the other day.

Taking the magic lantern she proceeded to make her way to where the smell was coming from, she was kinda sad because she was not in the home of Rainbow, but she was happy thanks to the promise of good food and maybe good company... Even when her instincts were kicking and screaming because she was in a place with no windows or natural light for that matter.

After a while she finally noticed light coming out of one of the rooms, as she entered she noticed hunger dancing in place, moving his flank from side to side as he cooked, if she listened very carefully she could swear he was singing a little tune. Hoping to play a little prank, she proceeded to turn off the lantern and closed the door very slowly so as not to make any noise.

Claw by claw and paw by paw, she got closer and closer, when she was upon him and when was about to pounce, he suddenly pointed his spatula behind him "your food is over there, go ahead and go to the canteen, I will be there in a minute".

losing all the wind of her sail she just slumps a little "You couldn't let me have this, huh?"

He just gave her a stare "No when I'm working with fire for fucks sake, now go eat" he then went back to looking at the stove.

Giving a sigh of defeat she looked where Hunger had pointed out, then suddenly all her bad mood had gone away when she saw two plates with bacon and pancakes and some eggs on the side "Sweet!" taking one of the plates and some silver wear.

Gilda proceeded to walk over to the canteen which already had one lantern on one of the tables. She didn't know how to feel about the "no light" theme that was in this place, in one place she felt like going back to sleep, in the other... there really was not a good side, if it weren't for Hunger, this place probably would be pretty scary alone.

Taking a seat she proceeds to cut a piece of pancake and when she was about to eat it, somegriffin screamed: "DO NOT FUKING DARE" giving a small yelp of surprise she looked at Hunger who was walking with the other lantern held in his magic and two plates more... and a bottle of something? "Do not commit the Sinn of eating them without the syrup you fuking twat".

"Geez dweeb, fine, give here" after giving her the syrup he sited right in front of her, when she was about halfway through the bottle, it was snatched away with red magic "hey! I wasn't finished!".

"Shure you were you dickhead, I want to eat too you know" using the other half of the bottle on his food hunger greedily proceed to devour his food.

Gilda was about to eat too, but then she noticed when she saw the face of Hunger, his eyes were bloodshot, and there were small paths of tinted red fur in all the orifices of his face "a-are you ok, dweeb?"

without stopping chewing, he looked up "mhmm".

Giving him a suspicious look, Gilda sets her cutlery on the table "what happened?".

"what do you mean?"

Gilda ruffles her feathers "Dweeb, where you like, the one that literally told me to not hide stuff from my friends?"

Hunger gave her a blank stare, holding one spoon to his face he seems to check his appearance, Giving an O-shaped mouth he proceeds to leave his spoon back on the table "I guess I'm not looking the best huh?" Gilda gave him a deadpan stare "fineeeee, but I warn you, your pancakes are gonna get soggy in about 12 minutes and 32 seconds"

"then start talking dweeb"

~~~
Hunger wasn't having a good day, the first thing he did in the morning was to wipe all traces of blood from his face, when the adrenaline finally ran out, he could feel how every part of his body was hurting at a molecular level. Hunger had forgotten the small detail that if he was not careful and accelerated the metabolism of his cells without also concentrating on their stability, it would cause them to remain unstable for a long time, in other words, Hunger is suffering from the symptoms of radiation poisoning.

although his mind was rested, his body wanted to die right now, in the last 2 hours since he woke up, he already had manually destroyed 121 attempts of his body to get cancer, and without a doubt, the fatigue, fever, nausea and brain damage was not helping. It was true that having a body was neat and all, but sometimes it really suck, he had half a mind to just fall over the ground and let nature take its course, if we're not for the fact that he saw this like kinda a suicide, he would probably do so already.

And yes, you read right, he had brain damage, manifesting sometimes in blurred vision and sometimes mood swings, now that he managed to fix most of his brain he noticed how chipper than usual he was, which made his stomach stir for a moment. that not to mention that when he had gone to buy de syrup he started to cry fuking hard when he was walking to ponyville, luckily, only that yellowish pegasus mare saw him, and judging her character, probably she wouldn't say anything to no one... maybe, having in mind that he run away when he saw her face full of worry, perhaps she was going to snitch on him with a doctor... or maybe a psychiatrist.

Thankfully she was pretty slow and for some reason, she did not use her wings, so he managed to outrun her enough to hide until his mental breakdown was back to normal. He then proceeded to confuse bleach with syrup., it was a lucky break that he decided to snack on it before he had gone home, because it would have been really awkward if he had put bleach into pancakes.

There was also the fact that a very stored that he enter either gave him a discomforted smile or an outright terrified face and only now did he understand why, apparently when he was crying, tears of blood had also come out, which made sense considering that he still hadn't fixed all of his blood vessels. Now he had the need to explain his state to her friend over the other side of the table, which was giving him a scrutinizing look.

Now he had to find the balance with telling just the right amount of information "Well, Apparently the thing I hunted yesterday left me in a worse state than I thought".

She furrows her eyebrows "and what did you hunt?"

"Well, now that I think about it, it kinda sounded like I had planned to hunt that thing down, but no, I just kinda got lucky enough to stop being the prey to become the hunter, but I'm losing the point here, I don't know the official name, but I called it "spiked tailzard".

Gilda raised an eyebrow "what, does it have spikes on his tail or something?"

"kinda, it has only one, and I didn't give him that name because of that"

Gilda raised her eyebrow even more "then why?"

"Is more a reference to... when someone spikes a drink of someone in a bar"

One of Gilda's eyes trembles a little "what?"

"huh... You know, when a psychopath spikes the drink of someone to k-"

"I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN YOU DWEED" Hunger flinched a little "Why would you name it something like that!?"

Hunger saw how fast Gilda was breathing, he kinda was tempted to eat her emotions like he did yesterday so she may relax and think straight, but then he shocked his head, he always hated mind-fuckery things, and he only do that to see how much of his powers got back. it indeed served to convince her to give his idea a try, but that was borderline mind control and that was a big nono in his book... Some day he will have to say "I'm sorry" for doing that.

O right, Gilda is getting more pissed the longer he takes to respond "Well is kinda accurate having in mind how the poison works, it kinda turns off all your abilities to move your body, and your body feels a bit numb while it disables your movement, but once it takes its toll, it brings you back to all your senses, which is worse, because then it tends to rip your throat out... if it doesn't do worse, that is"

Gilda narrowed her eyes suspiciously "and how do you know all that and why did you hunt it down?".

Hunger raises an eyebrow "do you think I hunt it on purpose? like I said, I just turn the tables against that thing and I know all this because I've been attacked by that thing a few times" Gilda didn't seem to believe him, giving a sigh of annoyance he continues "The worst thing they can do is lay eggs on you while you're paralyzed, they take advantage of the fact that you can't move to force-feed you until their eggs hatch, then the hatchlings proceed to eat you from the inside" The stern expression of Gilda change to one of horror, The face of hunger change to one of a dead man "... And I kinda experience the thing of "laying eggs inside you" part".

A small trickle of cold sweat goes around Gilda's back "D... Do you need to go to the doctor?".

Hunger blinks several times to get out of his stupor, then shakes his head "Nah, it was not this time, luckily I know how to deal with them now, so I manage to kill them thanks that they take their sweet time to bite your neck off"

Gilda seems hopeful "and how do you do that?".

Hunger finally breaks eye contact "Weeeeell... sorry to crush your hopes, but is not something that someone normal can do" He goes back to look her in the eyes "apparently their poison last from two to four hours, so when I get hit, I just speed up my metabolism so my body can take care of the poison, is kinda weird since is like having a fever if I don't do it correctly, but if I don't die from heat stroke, then I can play dead until is close enough to kill them with a surprise attack".

Gilda sits down a little, she first seems to understand but then her face change to one of confusion "...So how or why did you get eggs laid in you?"

"Well, that was the first time I meet one, at that moment I didn't know what the fuck was going on, so I did not think I could just wear off the poison by putting my body in overdrive, if it were a normal occasion, my throat would have been ripped out, but to my bad luck the thing had other plans... Let's just say she implants eggs in me, and leave it at that, but then the idea occurred to me to kill the eggs at high temperatures so I made my body run at a great speed to get the mother of all fevers before I knew, I felt that I could move again"

She seems to think for a while "I see..."

Hunger looks at her a little too strong, Gilda seems in some discomfort, when she is about to ask what is up, he speaks "it surprises me that you believe me".

Gilda Blinks several times "I should not?"

Hunger gives a comforting smile "just surprise is all, some people think is all fake and I'm just trying to toot my own two horns"

Gilda proceeds to take her fork "Well... you did get close to me painted in different kinds of blood, And when you bathed you didn't have any wounds that I could see."

"I guess that... is fair"

"so can I eat while I hear the rest? you did warm me about the soggy pancakes like 7 minutes ago".

"sure go ahead" Gilda start to eat while he look at hunger "so, the bad thing is that if I increase the metabolism of the cells too much while I do not control the degradation of these cells, my cells become unstable, and there is no easy way to restore them quickly" Gilda nods "so right now I feel like I just pumped iron for like, 2 days straight and my body is not used how big it has gotten"

Gilda raises an eyebrow, he continues "Right, so I was like, the size of a foal or as griffons call it, a chick or a cub" Gilda raises the eyebrow even more "so since I just hunted that thin I said to myself" Hunger change the tone of voice of an idiot "I want my horns back, so let's just kick in my growth hormonesand my cell metabolism" his voice changes back to normal "but I forgot to get a good hold of my powers so I overdid it".

Gilda stops eating "sooo... why were that size then?"

"An accident happened and I had to use everything I had left of magic to create a new body, it turns out that I didn't have much left so I only managed to make the body of a child"

"...and how old are you?"

Hunger gets a far-off look, he seems to think for a moment, if he told her his real age could be a problem, but if he lies then his body is gonna reject it and he would probably puke... and you really don't want him to puke, so he diced to be vague "I was 19 when an accident happen" before she could process what he said he continued "now I should have the body of a thirteen years old"

Gilda was close to asking about how he worded it but then heard the last part "Well, that does explain why are you so small" she proceeds to eat the last stuff that was on her plate.

"Sure it does, probably gonna stop growing when I have a decent stature thought"

After chewing she looked at him from hoves to head "So about a head and a half?"

Hunger rises an eyebrow "no? about the half of one I think should do"

Gilda looks confused "Wouldn't that make you shorter than most ponies?"

"Yup"

Gilda looked even more confused "and how that is decent?"

"Really? you focus on that and not the fact that I said I was going to stop growing?"

"Shut up, I was gonna ask that later"

"Sure you will, now, yes I never liked being too big, Theoretically I could grow to any height I want, but from experience, I prefer a shorter-than-average height."

"But you could big and strong!?"

"Normally that is a plus, yes, but sometimes quality over quantity usually wins"

Gilda scoffed "Riiiight, tell me one time when that happens"

Hunger rises an eyebrow "you have to be kidding me, right?"

Gilda crosses her arms "it sounds like you can't accept defeat"

The face of Hunger turns into one of disbelief "I have seen a unicorn lift an entire home"

Gilda stood still for a moment "A-and?"

"I once saw an earth pony bigger than princes Celestia and he couldn't lift an entire house"

Gilda stood still again, Hunger noticed how she started to sweat "p-probably b-because he did not try!"

"Ho he did, I dare him to do it, and he just destroyed a nice wall in the process"

Gilda deflates "Fineee, you win, now tell me what do you mean you would stop growing, you Bucking dweeb"

"I mean literally that, I literally mean that, I will just stop growing and ideally my cells should stop aging".

Gilda raises an eyebrow "You can do that?"

"Yup"

"How?"

"Well... that's kind of complicated to explain... but in a nutshell, instead of the cells dividing I make them create one from scratch every certain amount of time"

Gilda blinks "it cannot be that easy".

"because it isn't, I could explain in more detail, but considering how many times you say dweeb, I think you wouldn't pay attention to me."

Gilda seems interested "So are you saying that you could make me immortal?"

"immortal? no, never age? Yes, I could" Gilda seemed excited and before she opened her mouth, Hunger continued "is not that easy though" Gilda slumped over her chair and face-planted the table "You would have to be near me 24 hours a day, because once you get more than... 1 meter away from me? then you will start aging normally again."

Gilda move her head to look at him "Do you know if that even works? you don't sound very sure"

"Well, I'm really sure, yes, but I have never tried with a normal being, I mean, a made a fly live with me for 2 years" Hunger looked happy for a moment, but then he looked sad "then she asked me to let her die, it was truly a sad day"

Gilda looked at him in disbelief "You... Did you get attached to a fly?"

Hunger looked at her with a stern expression "Yes".

Gilda looked like she was about to tell him how stupid that sounded, but after seeing her face, she thought better of it "so, if I pass my life with you, you can make me live forever?"

Hunger looked at her with a Shit-eating grin "Woah!, You haven't invited me to dinner and you're already asking me to marry you? God, you move fast."

Gilda flushed "NOT LIKE THAT YOU DWEEB" Grabbing her plate she throws it to Hunger who grab it whig his magic.

Moving the plate aside "See? quality over m-" he is cut off when Gilda grabs the lantern and throws it at his face "BLODY HELL GIRL, I'M SORRY, MY FUKING EYES FUCK I CAN'T SEEEE" Hunger is kicking and screaming in the ground, his eyes burns and can only see white, is a lot better than black, but not that better.

But then all goes black, he hates this, and he has two options, destroy his eyes and make new ones from scratch or boost his eyes, even more, to make them heal faster, but for him, the two take too long, and he is scared, and without knowing it, he began to cry and mumble words while sobbing "I'm sorry, please let me out" "I don't want to be here" "please someone listens" "not again" "please get me out" "please..."

~~~
Gilda is very confused, a moment ago Hunger just teased her and the next moment he was on the floor, crying and begging for things that she could barely hear.

The guy who listened to all her problems and took her seriously every time she asked him a question, the guy who always gave her a smile when she was losing her temper, the guy who gave her a place to sleep the first night he met her, the guy who took the time to go out in a mess just to buy him syrup for breakfast... Normally she would call him chick and then laugh at him, but for some reason the way he says all this makes him unable to do it.

His eyes are wide open and seem to go in all directions, trying to find something, For some reason, the pupil is incredibly small, Hunger is still lying on the ground, hugging himself as if he's frozen to death. Gilda really didn't know what the hell to do, Should she try to reassure him? If so, how the hell would she do that? A hug maybe? Indeed, he doesn't act like a pony at all, but surely it would be of some use, right? if not, why would the ponies do it?.

With doubt written on her face, she decides to approach delicately and give him a hug, he froze for a moment, apparently surprised that something happened, Was he faking? if so she definitely gonna k-... wait, Hunger proceeds to hug her back, probably if he had an older body, he'd be breaking her ribs, but since he the height of a teenager, the strength of their hug ends up being more comforting than painful.

-Huuuu, what now?- By the surprise of the hug Gilda withdrew her own claws, but Hunger continues to hug her with all his might while... rubbing his head against her chest fluff "Dweeb... I swear to Grover if you did all this only to put your face in my fluff, I will rip your balls" To emphasize her point (and perhaps to return the favor) Gilda proceeded to place her claw on his crotch.

"huh?" Gilda proceeds to touch around only to find nothing "what the..." Then she proceeded to check with her eyes, just to confirm that there really was nothing. For a moment she thought maybe checking him out while he was in bad mental health wasn't the best idea, but curiosity got the worse of her. "Maybe here?" she proceeded to try to see his posterior, but she was unable to see, so choosing a more direct approach, she use her claw to touch where a marehood should be... Nothing.

Gilda was beginning to feel incredibly dirty from what she was doing, she was practically groping... it? molesting it... well, surely if he didn't like it he(?) would stop her by now, right? I mean, is he(?) strong enough to hunt the everfree monsters but not to beat a griffin?... what the hell is she thinking?! she had to stop now!!... FOR THE LOVE OF KING GROVER, she could literally feel the tears through her plumage and she think that he(?) was okay with this?!.

BUT SHE HAS TO KNOW, IT WAS THE LAST STRETCH, THE LAST BASTION OF SANITY, SHE HAD TO CHECK, HER CLAW HAD GONE TO CHECK IF HE HAD A PONUT OR CLOACA, ONLY TO FIND!!!... Nothing "what?"
"???"
"????????"
"????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"
*Confused noises*
She was confused, ultimate baffled, she no longer cared that Hunger was rubbing his face on the feathers on her chest, she no longer cared that Hunger was hugging her and she cared much less how the sobs he(?) was making were slowly fading away... because her mind couldn't process what she had just felt, she just couldn't.

"Gilda?" She froze, like a deer caught in the headlights, she looked down to see the face of Hunger, he(?) was giving her a blank expression with his puffy red eyes "why is your hand there?"

with his mind in pieces, she couldn't help not knowing what to do, -is this what they mean when they say "caught with the claw in the cookie jar?"- she thought... Without knowing what to answer and not wanting to call upon more of Hunger's rage, she said the first thing that came to mind "Dweeb... where are your balls?".

Silence... pure unfiltered silence, they were like this for a good moment, one totally serene(?) and the other sweating faster and faster. then it happened... Hunger's face slowly warped, trying to hold back as hard as he(?) could, his face turned red, but it was unavoidable, then the dam broke.

"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA" Hunger fell to the ground again, not because he(?) was full of pain or he(?) was sad, but because he was unable to stand up with the loud laugh he was making, tears not of sadness, but of happiness came out like rivers in rain... Gilda could not contain herself either, confirming that she had just come out of all possible danger, and with the stupid thing that she had said on the spot, she also fell to the ground and began to laugh like an idiot.