"Maeve, this bone turned up in the sewers. Have you asked the Genesis School's believers about it?"
"No, but I can be sure of something else." Maeve stared at the bone and licked her lips. "I can eat this!"
Dorothea and Elsa both froze.
"Have you forgotten my [Song of Flesh]? Eating any flesh imbued with spirituality gives me power. Conversely, I can also vaguely sense which flesh contains spirituality."
She spread her hands. "Bones are part of the body, so naturally, they're no exception."
"Imbued with spirituality?"
"That's right. Either it came from someone like a Genesis School member, who integrated spirituality into their body so thoroughly that even a single remaining bone still contains it, or it simply came from a creature that contains spirituality, such as..."
She paused. "A Lord of Dreams, for example."
Elsa's and Dorothea's expressions grew solemn.
Maeve had eaten Lords of Dreams before.
Previously, Elliot had tried to find spiritual flesh she could eat. After searching around, he had finally discovered that Lords of Dreams seemed quite suitable.
He had pulled Maeve into his dream, summoned a Lord of Dreams with the Bone Flute, then had Maeve kill and eat it.
It did increase her strength, but the efficiency was very low, nowhere near what it was in the Present World.
It was as though the flesh of the Lords of Dreams had been pumped full of water.
Later, when Maeve became stuck at the very peak of the third rank and could make no further progress, he stopped having her eat them.
But Maeve still remembered how those Lords of Dreams tasted.
"Those Lords of Dreams looked all kinds of bizarre. They came in every shape imaginable... Why don't we go into the dream and give it a try?"
"We'll kill a