Hungry Iterators

Chapter 1: A New Mouth

Residing in his chambers like usual, Five Pebbles looked for ways to ascend himself. The groups he was in weren't being as useful as he'd liked, but it was something. When he moved over to a different spot in his chamber, he saw someone strange. This being, they felt powerful, despite their simple appearance. They resembled a child's drawing, their body outlined in graphite grey and their body the color of white paper, with a perfectly spherical head with graphite grey holes for eyes and a slit, once more graphite grey, for a mouth. They had no neck, nor arms, to keep themselves together, and yet they seemed fine without. Four disembodied clawed hands floated around them, and their body was a simple dress with a small circular ornament where their neck should be.

"Hello, Five Pebbles," they said. Their voice was soft, but there was a hint of maliciousness inside.

"Do I know you?" Five Pebbles asked back, regarding the intruder quietly.

"You don't know me, but I know you very well," they said smiling.

"Hmm, how so?" Five Pebbles asked.

"You don't need to know that, especially since I won't be here for long," the maliciousness grew louder.

"...You seem to have ill intent, do you have it?"

"Some."

"...That isn't good." Five Pebbles looks at them sternly. "Tell me, what is your name?"

"Deitious," They stretch a hand towards Five Pebbles, although he moves out of the way.

Five Pebbles flinches in discomfort. "Deitious, so you intend on bringing me pain then?"

"Yes, now stand still, I'll make it quick," she moved her hand again towards Five Pebbles.

He moved away from her hand. "I will not let you inflict pain onto me for unknown reasons."

"Hmph." 

Suddenly, Five Pebbles found himself unable to move. Deitious once again moved her hand towards Five Pebbles and carved a mouth onto his face with her clawed finger. Smiling from the damage she had done, she disappeared, almost like she was nothing more than a vision.

Scratching at the carving, Five Pebbles tried to speak to Deitious. "...What have you done to me?" Only noticing that she was no longer there afterward.

He put his fingers into his mouth to mess with it, touching his new tongue, grossing him out by the other new parts of the mouth. The tongue was completely functional, he could move it himself, although it disturbed him to do so. Moving it around, he bit himself, causing himself pain. He didn't know how to properly use the mouth, although using it was oddly natural, as it he always had it. He found himself pushing his fingers further into his mouth, only to gag when they went too far. He had gotten to his new throat, although this being here was also disturbing to him. Horrified with the new changes, he tried to get rid of the mouth for hours, but nothing worked.

Eventually, another iterator, Seven Rising Suns, tried to contact him through video call, only for Five Pebbles to shut down the call. How was he supposed to explain the mouth? He didn't want to explain it, fearing if he tried, he'd only make a fool of himself. He couldn't even hide the mouth, so SRS would likely ask about it quickly. No, he couldn't do that, he wouldn't explain it, so he decided the best course of action was to shut himself off. That way, he wouldn't have to explain anything.