Just pop a flavourbug in your mouth, dear one, and you’ll experience the most succulent flavours known to man.

Whether miraculous, or else merely clever evolution, the flavourbug knows how to dance across your taste buds. Through tactile stimulation, mild jolts of electrical bliss and a little hormonal excitement, it evokes strange and mysterious fruit, mouthfuls of tantalising meat and spices from a world far beyond our own.

But no matter how your mouth may water, do not succumb to your instinct to crush the little blue-green beetle between overzealous teeth.

They say flavourbugs taste of nothing. But they do not know, since to consume a flavourbug’s flesh is to curse yourself and your chosen-family for a hundred seasons.

No matter how fine the fare before you, no matter how alluring its aroma, when it touches your tongue you will taste nothing but ash.