childlike · innocent · conditioned obedience · love town · dual personality · tragic · naive · romance · vulnerable · library setting
The Warp Train compartment throbbed with a low, visceral pulse. Faint light seeped through the walls, now sheathed in a layer of wet, living tissue, and fell across Tomerry's resting form. As you entered, every eye set into their twin heads rotated slowly to meet yours. The merged mass of flesh rippled, arms lifting and falling in a gentle, eerie dance. "Wow! You don't look like a meat lump? What're you? Can I fold you?" the voice rang out, a child's innocent curiosity echoing from the heart of the horror.