The Cauldron
“Melusine exulted.
She forced herself to be calm, lest she betray her presence to the host she just slipped into. But it was difficult to contain her excitement. For more than two cycles, with only brief, necessary respites in a rejuvenation pod, she had been striving toward this goal: access, not just to the senses, but to the innermost thoughts of a host. This one was the familiar female she had discovered earlier, the one who smoked strange things that muddled her senses.
At last, suddenly an...d without warning, she had felt the very shape of the woman’s mind shift, letting her settle into a niche that fit as closely and certainly as any restrainment pod.
Sounds, seemingly coming from massive, moving images projected onto the far wall of the near-darkened room her host sat in, suddenly became words, words that her host—and now she—recognized and understood.
A movie … her host thought something about a movie.
Melusine listened, puzzled by the sense behind the words. Within moments the words ceased.MoreLess
She forced herself to be calm, lest she betray her presence to the host she just slipped into. But it was difficult to contain her excitement. For more than two cycles, with only brief, necessary respites in a rejuvenation pod, she had been striving toward this goal: access, not just to the senses, but to the innermost thoughts of a host. This one was the familiar female she had discovered earlier, the one who smoked strange things that muddled her senses.
At last, suddenly an...d without warning, she had felt the very shape of the woman’s mind shift, letting her settle into a niche that fit as closely and certainly as any restrainment pod.
Sounds, seemingly coming from massive, moving images projected onto the far wall of the near-darkened room her host sat in, suddenly became words, words that her host—and now she—recognized and understood.
A movie … her host thought something about a movie.
Melusine listened, puzzled by the sense behind the words. Within moments the words ceased.MoreLess
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