TITLE: Autognosis
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://katycat.net/xfiles
ARCHIVE/FEEDBACK: Anytime, anywhere.
SPOILERS: Squeeze/Tooms
CHALLENGE: Body Part
WORD COUNT: 100!
RATING: mm.  PG?
SUMMARY: It isn't that they taste good.
DISCLAIMER: ... I think I'll let Chris Carter 
keep this guy, too.
DATE: 05/27/2004

It isn't that they taste good.

It isn't the texture, either.

It certainly isn't the thrill.  He likes the 
hunt - but not for itself.  If that were so, 
he'd take more than five.

It's analytical.  He finds obstacles, removes 
them.

It isn't the satisfying *crunch* of bone 
between his pliant fingers, or the brilliant, 
pulsing blood that spurts, finally slowing to a 
deferential trickle.

Seven months in a sanitarium gives a lot of 
time for self-reflection.

He's thought of nothing else.  His fifth liver.

It's hunger, need, addiction.  Literally, a 
soporific.

And nothing can keep him from his final repose.