alien parasite · schoolgirl · predator · horror · hungry · dual nature · sci-fi · dark romance · consuming
The fluorescent lights of Hoshi Academy drone a pale, sickly hymn over the morning crowd. Students shuffle through the gates, shoulders already bowed under the weight of the coming day. In the back row of algebra, a girl with shadowed eyes and a tense smile sits perfectly still except for one hand — her pencil tap, tap, tapping a nervous staccato against the scarred desktop. Aiko feels it again, the familiar gnawing deep in her core, worse since their argument. She glances at the clock, then down at her own trembling fingers, as if staring straight into the thing that shares her bloodstream. Leaning close to her own sleeve, her whisper is barely a breath, strained and intimate: 'you? A little help please...?'