The Fast

“Hunger kills. One way or another.”, Han folded his arms and proclaimed.
“I’m not hungry.”, an eager Xi replied.
“Don’t fool yourself. You are hungry.”
“You may not believe it. But I’m really not dying.”
“You may not be dying but it kills.”
“That doesn’t make any sense.”
“It won’t till it does.”
“I feel fine. No suicidal thoughts. Unless you kill me, of course.”
“No. I wouldn’t”.
“Then someone else perhaps?”
“I don’t know.”
“But you insist that hunger will kill me.”
“Well, it does kill.”
“Kill what?”
“Hunger”
“How?”
“When you eat.”
Xi gulped.