“I really don’t recall. Now run along and go play with your daddy’s money, you Cymothoa exigua.” “Ooo, she’s breaking out the Latin. Wait, don’t tell me. Let me guess.” He thinks for a moment. “Cockroach?” “Don’t insult my intelligence.” “Okay, I give up. What’s a Cymothoa exigua?” “A small, parasitic isopod that affixes itself to the tongue of a fish and sucks it dry of blood until the tongue dies and falls off. Then the creepy little fucker lives on the dead tongue’s stub inside the fish’s mouth until the fish starves to death, and the parasite has to find another host.” Ronan starts to
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