Tonton Macoute

Tonton Macoute is a Faction Paradox short story by Dave Hoskin.

Synopsis
Once upon a time, Tonton Macoute was the first chef of the Eleven Day Empire, one who experimented with the idea of voodoo cuisine far past the point of sanity. After sampling every kind of meat in creation, he turned his hunger inward, cutting into his own flesh at the quantum level and feeding on alternate versions of himself, creating a very strange space-time event, with a multitude of faces, arms and teeth jockeying for dominance at the quantum level. The Faction initially tolerated his behaviour because of his legendary culinary abilities. However when it was discovered that Macoute's appetites had rendered him such a distinctive space-time event, something that would attract the other time-active powers like wasps to jam (to say nothing of the fact that he'd begun stalking unwary Cousins and feeding them to the rest of the Faction family at banquets), the decision was made to imprison him.

In the intervening years Tonton Macoute has become a kind of Faction bogeyman, a story used to frighten the Faction's new recruits. But now Andraiz needs that bogeyman's expertise...