CLASSIFICATION

Parasitic Organism / Large Host-Subsuming Type

STATE

Observation Ongoing

NAME

un-ban-ull-co

APTERA_NOTE

A round helmet, and inside it, a single skull. The neck is purple, glistening like a brain. Black coat, purple gloves — not bad taste, I'll grant. Conversation only gets through by way of the skull.

Clever. It galls me to admit it, but clever. It finds the weakened, and first takes their pain away. Eased, they begin to hand themselves over — body and all. A word of caution, all the same: if that thing is ever kind to you, run.

Before long the inside has been swapped out, and it walks through the crowd wearing an innocent face. — Come to think of it, that little one in the borrowed skull (APT-014) wears this thing's remains, too. Which it met first — the living one or the corpse — I couldn't say.

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