Editing Lost for Words 1.z

{{infobox chapter
| work       = Pale
| book       = [[Interlude]] 
| number     = 1.z
| dateposted = 6 June 2021
| link       = [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/06 {{PAGENAME}}]
| previous   =[[Lost for Words 1.8]] 
| next       =[[Stolen Away 2.1]] 
}}

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the ninth chapter and first Interlude of [[Lost for Words]]. Thinking he's doing something else [[Gabe]] gets dragged into the [[Hungry Choir]]'s Devouring Song. Intervention by [[Kennet Trio]] isn't enough to save everyone.

==Plot==
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[[Gabe]] ponders his life, his friends and former career as a child actor. He doesn't like where is life is right now nor how he looks, though this may be due to some undiagnosed anorexia. 

He reviews the Devouring Song website, thinking he's just reading some sort of online fiction as he clicks around. He decides it's just the type of made up game he could occupy himself with and clicks in. He is warped into a world he doesn't understand dragged by bleeding boys and gory girls into the town square. There he meets the other participants who are either already there or are being dragged there as it begins. Gabe helps with setting up.

It begins, they start singing and try to get through it. any stutter will invite a nibble. Then there's the issue of a ragging bull running around, they need to kill and eat it.

The [[Kennet Trio]] attempt to intervene in the ritual, but are unable to save several participants, who are killed by the conjured bull. The weeping women gets help though.

The ritual is winding down before Gabe sees someone vomit, which causes him to vomit. The children close in and he joins in their song and meal.

==Major Events==
*Gabe and several others lose
*The Trio are able to save some people

==Characters==
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===[[Hungry Choir]] Ritual===
*Participants 
**[[Gabe]]
**[[Brie|Weeping women]]
**Tattoo guy
**Beard guy
*Bloody Children
*Ox
*The Mouthy Guards
===Interlopers===
*[[Kennet Trio|Masked trio]]
**[[Lucy|Fox-faced one]]
**[[Verona|Cat-faced one]]
**[[Avery|Deer-faced one]]
*[[John Stiles|Scary Solider]]
|}
==Trivia==
* The site that gave uses is the work of people the track the 'Devouring Song' phenomena,<ref>The choir did not create the website - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/gw9u6k/_/fsttn0r/ Wildbow on reddit]</ref> still some like innocents like gabe will mistake it for online fiction.
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