“It is not a live thing, yet it hums with energy. I feel strangely attracted. I wish to interact with it.”

Hee!

What a fun story. I love that Illyria has an achilles heel, and that it turns out to chocolate! What a clever idea, and well executed.

And now I'm trying very hard to avoid eating the chocolate I have sitting my my dining room-- it's a gift, and I don't need to eat it. I don't! Cheerios are fine! Step back from the chocolate!