Oh, it's absolutely the Braindance, [ Matt says with a cheerful grimace. He considers the raw meat a moment, then Tezcatlipoca. ] I don't know, though, I guess ...

A lot of cultures use animal products in ways that I don't find very savory when you break them down. Mine loves processing them past the point of recognition. And I know a lot of werewolves prefer raw meat to cooked, even when they're not shifted.

[ A momentary pause, the feeling of a missed stair. Matt never knows what tense to use when he talks about home. He wishes English had a hypothetical, or a both-at-once. ]