"How, how, HOW do you eat without a mouth?" [open]

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

Squish. Squelch, squish.

The lack of movement was beginning to get to him. Ax sighed and shifted his weight, causing his serving of the mess hall's food to ooze unpleasantly under his hooves. It was too much like being sick, too much like eating those liquid grass rations kept aboard Andalite ships for those too sick or injured to stand up and graze properly.

There was the grass around the Garibah tree of course, but he wanted to read up more about the tending of that tree and its grass before he even tried that. The last thing he wanted to do was damage the tree. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Stacy had Andalite literature in the Media Center, and Ax had some free time after he finished eating. He hoped that they'd be able to figure a way off of Stacy sooner rather than later, but in the mean time, the Garibah needed care-taking.

Squish.

Ugh.

Comments

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< My species usually grazes by crushing the grass and absorbing the nutrients that way, > Ax said. < 'Sucking' doesn't enter into it. Nor mouths. But yes, I eat through my hooves. >

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"That's just weird dude."

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Your planet has several creatures that eat by vomiting on their food. Sometimes even vomiting up their own organs to do so, > Ax said. < Your species eats by inserting animal and plant matter into a hole in your head and grinding it to a pulp with exposed bones. Is eating with my hooves any stranger? >

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, and that's weird too. And most of the aliens here eat food the same way I do."

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< Shall we agree that eating is a very strange process then? >

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, sure. why not? ...so, can you actually taste any of that?"

[mynameisax.livejournal.com]

< No where near the extent that you humans can taste things, > Ax said. < Humans have a very well-developed sense of taste in comparison to Andalites. I quite enjoy eating as a human. >