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>Laze: Wait. If you're part of the hivemind, how come you're not using the goo around you?

You ARE the hivemind! But you are also Laze. It was the last name given to you. It was after your home evaporated and your race had retreated underground. It was hoped that the brightest among you would be able to find a way to salvation.

You didn't believe them. You wanted answers, not reassurance. You went behind their backs and found horrible, horrible things. But eventually, you did find the truth. After you were murdered, it was revealed to you that this was truly your peoples' final attempt at survival. The scientists sacrificed everything - and everyone - to give your race a true chance at ascension. Your demise was the final ingredient, the seed of consciousness needed to begin the process of evolution anew.

However, you were killed again, before your second hatching. Your mind hadn't yet developed, but it was still powerful, and that raw potential was what had kept you alive, merging your thoughts with those belonging to this Connie Cohen.




Connie Cohen. Connie Cohen... What an absent-minded mess of impulse and self-loathing. You thought you could keep her placated in the background while you assumed control of her body, but you hadn't realized that her consciousness has been tainting your own. The longer the two of you share the same space, the more of you will be lost within her. She already thinks that she can assume the role that you were destined to take, and to humour her now would be the end of both of you.

For this purpose, you will eschew the aid of your people, your children. You will kill this interloper with your own two hands, as many times as needed, until no doubt remains as to who is the dominant consciousness.




It's a matter of principle. You know your place. Hers is no longer here.

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