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“Extraction complete,” chirped the machine’s pleasant, feminine voice. “Chicken essence: 99.8% pure. Residual biomass: reclassified as Mammalia ambiguus .”

Elara adjusted the brass goggles on her forehead and stared at the creature in the glass chamber. It had once been a perfectly fine Rhode Island Red named Clucky One. Now, it was a pale, featherless thing that mewed softly and tried to burrow into the straw. chkn extractor

But a blank slate could write its own story. It had once been a perfectly fine Rhode

Clucky Three tried to escape. It grew four extra eyes before the extraction was even finished, each one swiveling independently to track her movements across the lab. Its bones snapped and re-formed into a delicate, crystalline lattice. It chirped, but the chirp sounded like a human infant saying the word why . Clucky Three tried to escape

The second vial went to a philosopher who wanted to know what Gallus gallus domesticus meant without the bird. He drank it and spent three weeks sitting in a nesting box, refusing to speak.