Trying to figure out what would make his daddy happiest, little Zak ran about the base gathering objects that may please his sick father. The first thing he found and brought back were solid stones, which Pandemon glared at for a few minutes.

"These are much too hard!" She said, and so Zak ran back out to find something softer. He found a ring dainty daisies, which he brought back to his father.

"These are much too cold!" She said, and so Zak ran back out to find something warmer. He found a human spy, which he brought back to his father. Pandemon smiled at this.

"This is juuuuuuust right!" She said, her tongue elongating and diving into the throat of the spy, strangling them from the inside and her contracting tongues muscles lapping up the fresh red blood.

"I feel... Refreshed. But I need more," Pandemon said as she finished the now dry corpse, her distant gaze falling onto Zak, "Take me to South America. I know what I need to do."

"But daddy-" Zak started. He decided that as long as he followed Lettuce's orders of not letting Pandemon kill everyone on base, he could do just about anything to cheer up his daddy, even taking her to South America with questionable motivation.

TO BE CONTINUED