Curses

A guide to our species’ rudest curses (along with explanations for those unfamiliar with our culture). Only use these when really aiming to wound:

• May you have just one offspring (because then they'd be lonely)
• May you have an odd number of offspring (because then they wouldn’t always have a hunting partner)
• May you have 20 or fewer offspring (because it implies your parthenogenetic powers are weak)
• May you have more than 24 offspring (because it implies some of them will absorb each other in the geothermal nest)
• May you have any number of offspring other than 22 (pretty self-explanatory)