tasty, chewy, crunchy, gooey - Renfield

[saxloch]

Scientists estimate that there are over ten quintillions of insects on earth at any given time. In the United States alone, there exists ninety-one-thousand identified species of insects, with over seventy-thousand unidentified. Renfield attempted to work out the number of insects that exist on every single continent, but once his results started coming back with “e+18” he quickly closed all of those tabs and stepped away from the public library’s computer. He stopped understanding numbers once they stretched into eight or nine digits in length and struggled to even count every zero in ten quintillion.

The point was, however, that in the simplest terms there were hundreds of thousands of millions of bugs anywhere in the world at any given time, and yet Renfield’s coffin-shaped stash was quickly dwindling away to crickets. What he would give for just one juicy cricket right now.

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