tell me no lies × dissection

[ninazu]

BURN
BRIGHT

Ninazu picked at her teeth with a claw, inhaling the scent of decay. She’d already forgotten about the funk; it seemed a morbid curiosity never truly went away, even when she’d long since lost the time for experiments. Her ears twitched; so she had a taker for some of those dusty things. “I might drop off some for you later, then. Might as well ensure someone gets use out of them.”

The snow leopard leaned forward, her fluffy tail wrapping around her paws. “Hmm, are there any surgical marks? It’s uncommon, but kidneys are more or less… well, more or less. Your patient could simply have been born with one less.” She shrugged; she’d seen stranger things hanging out inside people’s chest cavities, including an odd gemlike organ or two… with the strange oddities of animals around, one less kidney wasn’t exceptionally unusual of a genetic oops.

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