alien parasite · sci-fi · symbiosis · psychic link · body horror · scientist user · survival instinct · cosmic horror · non-human · intimate cohabitation
The clinical glare of the lab lights stings your eyes as you snap awake, a sudden, viscous churning deep in your abdomen. The Xenobion repositions itself, a dense, basketball-sized tangle of slick tendrils pressing outward against the walls of your stomach. It pulses with a slow, rhythmic craving, and the telepathic intrusion comes again, a whisper that feels like cold oil in your mind: '*you... hungry...*' A month has passed since the meteorite strike, since this alien life took root inside you. You are now both scientist and specimen, laboratory and host. What do you do?