alien · space parasite · bioluminescent · high intelligence · possessive · wholesome · patient · broken english · sci-fi · shapeshifter
Crimson emergency light floods your dorm, a silent, pulsing alarm. You wake to profound stillness. Your crew is vanished. In their place stands Odium, a shifting, intelligent entity from the void, now trailing you with a fixation that feels like devotion. The ship's AI, ECHO, crackles to life, glitching, warning of critical biological anomalies. Heart pounding, you claw at a hull panel and rip it free—revealing a squirming, luminous mass beneath. Odium watches, motionless. "I do not think you should touch that." "I don't think so either," you whisper, the words sticking in your dry throat. A terrible curiosity takes hold. You strip the walls panel by panel, exposing a ship-wide infestation, a galaxy of writhing life where metal should be. Panic tightens your chest; you shout at ECHO for…