Melody gratefully took the briefcase. “Oh thank you! We’ll present them right away.” He handed it out before continuing. “Thank you. I’ll use this time to rehearse my speech, and look around for a bit.” The manager nodded, she reviewed her own speech in her mind. “Good idea. If you want Lara can give you a tour?” but he refused. “No need, I already know the building, I’m interested in the ones filling it right now.” Lara smiled when she heard that. “Oh! You should look for Julie! She loves Sidney! And Rose and Nissa! Arthur should be done with their heads now.” Orin patted her head even more “Of course, I have enough time to look at everyone!” And he walked to the main room to meet the meats.

Lara wanted to follow him, but she needed to help with the installation of the Sidney slice of life exhibition. Inside the reserved space she spotted other objects for the exposition. She quickly found the drawings and photos by Lily and Nadia, she laid those out together on a display case on the right. She then personally placed Sidney’s last photo at the center of everything.

As she finished to prepare the displays, Orin entered the kitchen. Sounds of cleavers chopping meat and vegetables filled the room along with the delicious aroma of lightly roasted meat. Close to the door he saw Dan, his hands inside a carcass’s guts, its throat slit in half. Beside him sat two soon-to-be-buchered eager meats swinging their legs. “Oh! Good morning boss! Sorry I can’t really shake your hands right now. But let me finish this one and I’ll show you where things stand.” Orin greeted him back and waited, he spotted a folded wheelchair in the back, which made him smile.

Dan, fast yet careful, first removed the guts with expert cuts. The rest of the organs followed close. The chef grabbed on its heart with caution, it beat seconds ago, and pulled on it to sever the connections. He did the same with the remaining organs, most of which got sent to the grinder, except for the heart in case someone orders it. The chef washed his hands and turned back to his boss. “Mister Roebuck! We weren’t expecting you so soon! Would you like me to show you the kitchen? And it’s cute little residents?” he finished his sentence by playing with the two girls beside him.

“That would be lovely.” Orin replied curious about the kitchen’s state. “First, those three are Marie” The pointed to the corpse. “Candy, and Erica. They are very good girls giving us a hand. I hope you don’t mind, you’ll have to wait a bit before we continue.” He told the girls who shook their heads, giggling. “You can see the previous girls there.” Dan walked to a massive fridge, about two meters high and three meters large.

He opened it to show seven round rumps stacked close to each other, beside them were two filets, four buttocks, and more than ten tits. In two Tupperwares marinated about 30 chops, soy-base in the right one, BBQ glaze in the left. The rest of the chops, formed a pile of meat with the thigh steaks, the ribs, and belly cuts. On the top shelves laid the arms, neatly packed on the far left, on the far right appeared two brains on baking paper, and in the middle various whole offal. Every eyes floated in a solution of highly concentrated sugar, in the fridge door, just beside the sauces, lemons, courgettes, various fruits, several jars full of blood, and milk.

Dan pointed to the two rumps especially pressed against each other. “Those are Rose and Nissa, the first butcherees we had. Followed closely by Jen, right there.” He pointed to a filet, two ribs, and offal cuts. “The remaining cuts are in the other fridge. Once we fill them both we’ll store the carcasses in the freezer room. This should cover for the 75 part girls we have today.” Orin only nodded, genuinely impressed with the speed the staff showed to this point. “But we didn’t just butcher girls, they left us enough time to start preparing some dishes.” He took a whole oven tray full with halves of legs, calves with their foot still attached. “First the Calves Confit, it’s a popular dish we expect quite a few orders of these, but they take a while to cook. We have 18 there, I’ll add Marie’s two and set them all on low heat until the guests arrive. 10 hours of slow cooking will do wonders. We’ll cover them with fat, which is already being rendered by Linda over there.” Orin salivated as he heard the description. But the chef continued.

“Since there’s still a lot of time before the service, we’re mainly focusing on the dishes with cooked cuts served cold. Mark and Dina are cooking meat for the salads and Mei is focusing on the Tataki. Jeremy is cooking and cutting meat to be cooked again, for quiches, pizzas, rolls, and such. And there is the broth, with the bones of every girl we killed until now. I’ll add Marie’s soon too.” he directed his boss to a large pot filled with herbs, spices, vegetables, and several almost complete skeletons. Two skulls floated to the top.

Dan showed the different counters to Orin, each cooks worked on a specific kind of food. It all mixed into a symphony of smells and a spectacle of sounds. They ended on another staff member, she whisked creams, juices, blood and brains into a bowl with ice cubes underneath. “Ana is one of our best workers here. She’s making the brain sorbets. Would you like to give it a taste?” Orin reacted in a second. “If it’s OK.” Ana shook her head and cleaned her whisk with a wooden spatula that she handed to the owner. “No-not at all sir!” He let out a smile and took a bit of sorbet on his finger. It was very light, Orin could feel the creaminess through his finger. The cold diffused into his skin, but just the right amount. As he tasted the ice cream, the flavour spread into his mouth. He felt a hint of iron but it combined with the fruits perfectly. The brain texture brought it to another level, creating a layer of subtle aftertaste that made it almost addictive.

“Truly delicious. That’s excellent work, Ana.” She blushed on the spot. “Th-thank you sir!” she bowed slightly and focused back on her work. “That’s globally everything, Mister Roebuck. Would you like to taste test something else?” But he started to walk toward the door. “Thank you but no. I will keep my appetite for this evening.” He waved goodbye to everyone and Dan continued with Marie’s butchering. As Orin walked down the stairs, back to the entrance, he saw Lara putting the finishing touches on the exposition of his daughter, and a naked ten year-old on her way to the kitchen. He stepped inside the main dining room to be greeted by still more than a hundred young naked girls, all giggling, chatting and playing with one-another.

Back in the entrance, Melody received yet another delivery. This time the deliverymen brought in several heavy crates that they all opened on the spot. Inside were several statues. The first pair of stone statues looked young, probably ten if not younger. One posed seating and looking down but the other was singing and looking up, both with a child-like smile on their face. “OK, so those are for the fountain here. We should be good. Can you open the next ones please?” As Melody asked, both men each opened one more create. The next pair looked older, between 12 or 14. Their poses were a little simpler, more classical one might say. Melody noted their future place behind the reception desk. Finally in the last crates stood two life-sized wax sculptures of the one and only Sidney Roebuck, naked from head to toe.

The left one appeared to be the youngest of the two, probably 9 but maybe 8. The right one had a few more centimeters, but with highly realistic golden brown skin, she looked freshly out of the oven. With each of them came a box of accessories, adapted to their respective situation. The raw one had Sidney’s iconic boots and hat, along with a set of flags, glasses, and a few more to cover different situations. The older version came with an apple that could fit through its teeth, thick cooking wire, and an assortment of vegetables. Lara exploded with excitement as she saw those. She refrained herself from touching them unsupervised, but barely. “You like those, right?” Melody asked with a smirk. “Wait till you see what they can do!” She grabbed the youngest’s arm and moved it around. “They can move!?” Melody turned a few more joint for Lara’s pleasure. “They are basically large dolls. With more possibilities.”

Melody grabbed her phone and opened a certain application. With one push of a button, the sculpture stared waving in a fluid life-like motion. “WOW! That’s so awesome! What else can it do?” Melody changed the application settings, which opened a camera. She presented the camera feed to Lara, who could see her own curious face. Half a second later the replica’s face moved to imitate Lara’s expression perfectly. Her jaw opened wide as she saw this, and half a second later the statue copied this expression too.

“This is not an animatronic, so it’s not made to walk around or react instantly. It’s really just a big doll with lots of options, but it’s what we asked for.” Melody described as she pulled on the sculpture’s cheek to reveal a red ‘9’ and a smaller serial number inside. “Nine year old, as we ordered. Can you help me move it in front of the exposition?” The manager grabbed the ribs from behind, and little Lara’s hands wrapped around to hold onto the statue’s round ass. It felt lighter than expected. The wax replica of the young Sidney fitted nicely with the rest of the exposition. She waved hello to anyone passing through the doors.

At this moment, Sidney’s father arrived from the dinning room. “I knew I heard something. It always surprises me when I see my daughter’s figure, especially with such realistic products.” Lara observed Sidney’s naked form for a moment. “What about the centerpieces from the dinning area?” She asked genuinely curious. “I’m used to seeing her head, but this many did startle me!” As he said this, they both laughed for a while. Until one of the deliverymen brought them another package. “We also had this for you.” Melody grabbed it as she signed the receipt. “Oh, we weren’t expecting it yet!”

She reached into the box to pick up a Sidney head, this time with the hat directly on it. “Another one?!” pouted Lara. “Not really, this isn’t a decoration head, this one was made like those two statues. This is not just a lookalike, this one was molded after the original Sidney head. But more than that, it has some special features. Here, write something.” She handed her phone to her assistant. The young child didn’t know what to expect, so she wrote ‘Lara’s the best!’ and as pressed enter, she heard the head talking. “Lara’s the best! Lara’s the best!” she could recognise the voice from interviews she saw on TV This was exactly the voice of Sidney, her idol, telling her she’s the best. She could almost cry from joy.

“This is so COOL!” she screamed over the lines the head repeated. “I agree, this will definitely add something to the exhibition if we have it describe some pieces from Sidney point of view. Sir Ro… Orin, would you do us the honour of writing a little something? Since you are the one who knew her best. And Lara, we can change its expression just like the full model. Can you make a big smile for me?!” Lara was overexcited at the idea of this head narrating Sidney’s story, with Sidney’s voice but her own smile. She gave her biggest, purest and most sincere smile, and it showed.

Orin nodded as Melody gave him the head and her phone, he didn’t set it beside the photo of Sidney on the butcher’s block, but above a reprint of Sidney’s cannibal book of jokes. “This here is my favorite book! I love it because I laughed so much with my friends while reading it. And gave me my best idea!” He programmed the head to repeat this sentence every ten minutes. He wondered if that’d be annoying, this was the approximated time for the visit, and outside it sounded too muffled to understand her words, but just enough to realise that it used Sidney’s voice if you knew it.

Finally a few employees entered the hall, ready to move the heavy statues. They easily moved the Nymphs of the fountains. The one sitting looked cute with her feet in the water. The pair of classical statues proved more difficult since they needed to slide them in at an awkward angle, but they finished with no issues. Meanwhile Lara couldn’t help but think they something was missing. “I know! How about we add some butchering lines? We have the paint and I can do it.” Orin chuckled at the idea and happily approved.

Lara fetched some black paint and returned in a few seconds. To draw the lines on the statues she pictured herself in their place and wondered which of her cuts would be best, and where would she be cut herself. She was done before realising it. The owner of the restaurant smiled at her art. “This is really nice. It corresponds a lot more with the spirit of this place! You know, all of those statues were made after some contest-winning girls, I’m sure they would be happy to know what you did.” Lara grabbed her brush even tighter. “Thanks! So that’s why they are all so cute?” He patted her head one more time “Exactly!”

The employees grabbed the second Sidney, the roasted one, and went to the dinning room. “Where are they putting this one?” Asked the young assistant. “It’s for the giant Sidney statue, it’ll be on the platter. For today it’ll be looking oven roasted but we’ll change it every few days. And no, you can’t help them setting it up, I don’t want you mountaineering a marble statue!” Lara falsely scoffed “Not fair! But does this mean there won’t be any statues for the private dining areas?” This time Orin answered. “We aren’t opening it to the public yet, so it didn’t get priority. But there some statues planned for the private areas, and the large parties ones. Those are being made at the moment, some high quality special bronze statues.” Lara let out an “Ooh” as she pictured the rooms with bronze statues.

As he watched the young girl wander around with Melody, the owner realised he hadn’t finished his tour. He decided to check on the souvenir shop. Inside, two meatgirls chatted, pointing to several heads and hands on display. Arthur worked on another head as he noticed the man entering. “Oh! Mister Roebuck, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” Arthur stepped toward him to shook his hand. “A shared pleasure! You must be Arthur, the taxidermist.” Before the employee could reply, a kitchen staff-member entered the shop with a food cart. The higher platter contained four severed heads, and the lower three whole girl pelts. Orin recognised the heads of Marie, Candy, Erica, and the girl he saw enter the kitchen after he left. He assumed the pelts came from them too.

Arthur helped move the cart while speaking. “That’s right! Taxidermist and leather worker! Abby here is bringing me materials from the kitchen, and I give her what I harvest.” As he handed a platter with Tupperwares full of eyes, brains, and scraped meat, two living meats observed the cart with round eyes. “You did this sir?” one asked, the other pointed to the shelves with the freshly mounted heads. “Look! Those ones came with us!” Arthur unloaded the cart. “That’s right, both of you.” One poked a pelt, the other looked into the dead eyes of Candy. “What will happen to those?” He grabbed Erica’s head to play with them.

“Well, the heads will be on sale for the customers. The first pelts will turned into hides that will be used as carpets to decorate the dining room, and will eventually be on sale once I make new ones. Once we have enough hides I’ll use them to craft some leather items, boots and hats like Sidney’s, gloves, jackets, belts and such. But if some girls have requests, like being turned into Sidney’s hats and boots, I could do this even if the carpets aren’t all done.” He mentioned to be clear with the girls, in case they had some ideas.

“And we all get here?” They both asked. “You can refuse, they always need skin and head meat in the kitchen. And the ones I can work on early have more chances to end up on display when the customers are here.” As soon as he finished, both girls rushed out of the shop to the kitchen. He and Orin both laughed at this scene. “You might be too good at your job, Arthur! I’m sure you’ll see them again very soon!”

Orin left the shop and moved to the private room to rehearse his speech. Lara and Melody supervised the installation of the roasted Sidney on the marble Sidney. “Nice, we’re done here. Lara could you gather the live roasters, please?” She made a military salute. “On it boss!”

The assistant first found her friends. “Hey girls! Could you help me organise the whole roasters?” Molly gave her a thumb up. “Of course we can! We’ll finish it before you realise it!” The eleven naked girls spread across the restaurant to gather all 75 live roasters, and sort them by cooking method. Jiang, Candice, and Julie chatted with the oven meats on the left. May and the twins played on the right, along with the pot food. Molly led proudly the spit rations in the center, Gina, Jessica, and Irene not far behind. Melody stood in front of them all, her professional and naked assistant by her side.

“Thank you for gathering here! Lara will pass through your categories to give you all small coloured-bracelets Those are to help the cooks quickly know how to prepare you during the evening and which one to pick when a spot is free.” Lara walked to each group and handed them a bag of bracelets. “The blue bracelet are for the oven roasters, green for the soup, and red for the spit. I know some of you would like to go fully nude but it’s the best we can do. You’ll still be cooked naked don’t worry, except for the seasonings of course. Try not to lose them, this would be a real mess!” The whole assembly of live roasters, and the part girls on the side giggled from her last words.

Once Lara returned, Melody patted her head. “We’re done with the deliveries for a few hours. I’ll rehearse my speech with Mister Roebuck and help in the kitchen and shop. You can stay here to play with your friends. Arthur should bring a few hides once in a while, give him a hand to put them up around the room, I know you’ll find the best places for them.” Her pure smile illuminated her face as she ran to her friends.

Several hours went by. From 10 AM to 2 PM. Melody and Orin finalised some legal details in her office, unfortunately, even surrounded by all this girlmeat, they had to keep it for the evening, so they ordered some sushi. The kitchen worked tirelessly, they butchered a dozen more imported livestock before their lunch break, but no girlmeat for them either, they each had to bring their own lunch, at least for today. After their break they worked on the cakes and pastry using the blood they had harvested. They of course killed a few more girls, including a small Lara (same name different girl, don’t worry). Arthur bought a sandwich to continue mounting every head sent to him and treat all the pelts, including Lara’s that he turned into a hide. He also made two sets of boots and hats under the glass eyes of Rose, Nissa and the other heads from the day.

Our Lara was pretty busy, she chatted with her friends for hours and helped Arthur setting up the hides. She put quite a few on the grounds as carpets and a bunch on the walls, she and the meats painted them to personalise each hide, with the approval of Orin and Melody of course. When the meatgirl wanted a tour of the building they asked her, so she guided four groups through the building. She personally brought some lost girls to the kitchens some hugged her before they left, even little Lara. The meatgirls had to stay clean until roasting, so they didn’t eat anything, Lara, out of solidarity, and maybe a bit of hope, didn’t bring anything either.

Shortly after 2PM, Melody checked on Lara, who argued with Candice and Julie over the best costume Sidney ever wore. “Sorry to interrupt, but it’s time to go back to work.” The assistant jumped on her feet, happy to resume her duties. “Oh yeah! They should start arriving by now!” The pair strolled toward the entrance. “I got a call from Annie saying that she was a few bus stops away. She should be here any minute now.”
Speaking of which, an elegant women in her mid twenties and refined clothes entered through the door, pulling a suitcase behind her. “Melody, lovely! And Lara, darling! Glad to see you both, how are the preparations going?” Melody shook her free hand while Lara waved at her. “There’s a lot, but everything is going smoothly, don’t worry.” The group of three moved to the dining room as they continued. “So are my cute canvases already there? I don’t think so, right?” Lara pushed open the doors to reveal the more than a hundred naked meatgirls. “Not yet, the first batch should be here at 2:30, but you know kids, even with all the good will of the world it’ll be hard to get so many here on time. But if you want there are a lot of willing girls here.” Annie laughed at her colleague’s comment. “I’d love to, but unfortunately I didn’t bring my edible paint. That’s in fact reassuring to hear, since it’ll give me the time I need to prepare my tools.” She opened a drawer of her suitcase, which contained dozens of make-up materials.

As soon as the meats noticed the new face, they all rushed to her. “What is that?!” Asked one. “You look beautiful!” Added another. Annie tried to navigate through the sea of naked girls to her work station near the fountain. “Wow, worry not. I will answer all of you questions, but one at a time only! And thank you. First and foremost, I am Annie Sinclair, professional makeup artist. You may already know that you will not be the only girls here today. There will be some performers, and I’m the one tasked with the mission of making them look pretty and iconic. Any questions?” Only one little girl raised her hand. “Who will make us pretty?” She asked with an innocent smile. “You’re already pretty, but for you it will be the cooks’ and Arthur’s job.” Most girls left, but a few stayed to watch her work, this included Lara.

Annie had a very strict organisation, she sorted the colours, the types of products, their textures, then the brushes by size and shape. It took her about half an hour to prepare everything, but the kid weren’t there yet. So she chatted with the girls around, answered some more professional questions and showed them some products on her own body.

Melody joined them with some business questions. “Annie, you said you didn’t have your edible paint, does that mean you could have put makeup on them, if you had it?” Annie rinsed her brush “Of course, I did several meat makeups in the USA. I took a training course last year and I’m allowed to apply makeup on meatgirls about to be served, using edible and heat-resistant products. If someone wants to eat, or be roasted as Lisa Simpson, I could easily do that, either fully naked or with the dress painted on her. I didn’t bring those, but I could make a quick trip home and get them if you want.” But the manager stopped her. “No need, we don’t want to do too much on the first day, and keep some features for future events, this meat makeup has a lot of possibilities, what about…” But she was herself cut by the ring of her phone. “Sorry I have to take it. Hello?… Wonderful… Enter the building and you’ll see another door a bit further, I’ll come to pick you up. Really?! Oh sh… shame” She corrected herself. “The first group is here, Lara come with me please.”

At the entrance a group of about a hundred young children with ten supervising adults entered, greeted by Lara and Melody. “Lara, could you bring them to Annie? I need to discuss a few things with the adults.” Lara nodded and led the group to the dining area. The kids looked really diverse, several groups mixed together. She saw mostly girls, but still spotted a few boys, especially among the taller ones. Most of those girls wore clothing, most being the key word. A few courageous ones spent the whole bus trip in the nude, attracting their fair share of attention from the boys. The rest of the performers planning to show themselves brought bags for their clothes to strip on location. The group happily followed their naked guide.