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"So where do Swallowers come anyway?" asked Jerome.
"Well, that's an interesting story" said Clara. "girls inherit it from their mothers..."
"What?!" asked Jerome, clearly shocked at this news. Is that what happened to Jerome's father? Jerome's mother had told him that his father had ran off shortly after he was born. According to her, his father had been a drunk and a barfly,,,but he hadn't been like that the first time they knew each other. Mom and Dad had somewhat of a fallout, and Jerome doesn't know all the details because his mother refuses to say anything about what had happened. Oh God! Did that mean that his own mother was one of these Swallowers?! Would she eat her only son?!
"Um, Jerome" said Allison. "pay attention and learn about the Daughters of Gluttony"
"Daughters of Gluttony?" asked Jerome faintly.
"Yes" said Clara "you see, thousands of years ago, there was a goddess named Eve"
"Eve?" asked Jerome. "wasn't that Adam's wife?"
"Well, yes" said Clara. "the Bible would have you think that Eve came from Adam's rib. BUT, Eve actually came from the Land of Nod, which was just east of Eden. Anyway, Eve came to Eden to lure Adam into eating the apple. When Adam ate the apple, God came around and kicked Adam and Eve out of Eden. What happens in the Bible after that is a little sketchy. It's been told--among us Swallowers--that Eve brought Adam to the Land of Nod, where there wasn't any men. Well, very soon after, Eve and her followers became pregnant with Adam's children. Eve then revealed to Adam that she was a goddess that had been living in the Deep before God made the world"
"And what's the Deep?" asks Jerome.
"Eve never truly tells" said Clara. "And that she was a goddess of gluttony--she loved to eat, you see. Eve had an incredible hunger for all things edible, which included Adam himself...but Eve loved Adam too much to eat him. Before any of his children are born, Adam was eaten by Charlene, one of Eve's followers. When Eve found out about this, she was enraged and punished Charlene by making her eat her own child when it was born. Eve was depressed, so she started to eat everything in sight...even her own followers! She started to like eating everything, so she chowed down the Earth in a single day. God then punished Eve by turning her into the new Earth. Ever since then, all women that have been born on Earth inherits Eve's hunger"
"Come on, you don't honesty think that really happened?" asked Jerome.
"Who knows if it really did?" shrugged Allison. "that's the story we Swallowers have told each other through the generations, anyway"
"It's been said that Eve would return one day to bring about the end of the world" said Clara. "although, some people think that if she does come back, she'll reward her worshipers with a mighty gift..but it's just a story"
"The Daughters of Gluttony is what we call ourselves" said Allison. "and we're everywhere"
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