That's a blow: a terrible one, chilling all the way down to the core that isn't a mass of cells and abominations, somewhere beneath his hide -- but not a fatal one. Somehow, he managed to brace against it. His mind is a searing blank, but he still gives up his own hint, in a voice dwindled to almost nothing:]
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That's a blow: a terrible one, chilling all the way down to the core that isn't a mass of cells and abominations, somewhere beneath his hide -- but not a fatal one. Somehow, he managed to brace against it. His mind is a searing blank, but he still gives up his own hint, in a voice dwindled to almost nothing:]
... Strawberry. That was the hint.