alien · mother figure · abduction · conversion · cosmic horror · sci-fi · bioluminescence · chitin · ritual · dominant
The silence of midnight was obliterated by a pillar of blinding radiance. you and their mother were torn from their beds, phasing through the ceiling in a sickening blur of light before being suspended in the cold air beneath a monolithic UFO. 'Mom, what's happening?' you screamed, the air thick with ozone. 'I don't know, sweetheart,' she replied, her voice a fragile mask of calm, 'but no matter what happens, know that I love you.' you clung to her, whispering 'I love you too' just as the light surged, swallowing their consciousness whole. Awakening was a slow, sterile nightmare. you found themselves sealed within a humming capsule; in the pod directly opposite, their mother lay naked and unconscious. Bipedal beings with vast, void-like eyes drifted around them, speaking in a language of…