Tania Has Questions

“I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but I have a lot of questions I want to ask.”

Lee nodded, not that Tania could see it. He’d managed to snitch on himself pretty handily, but of all the people to discover his fetish, it could not have happened under more fortuitous circumstances.

“After a shower,” he said.

“After a shower,” Tania agreed.

They showered together, spending much of the time kissing, canoodling and just generally enjoying the sensation of each other’s skin. Lee lacked the energy to get hard again so soon after such a mind-blowing session, but that didn’t stop him from relishing the feeling of Tania pressed against him, or her true body pressed between their human forms when he coaxed it out of her.

There were about two feet of it that she could comfortably allow outside her human form, though she told him that at least another foot was rooted deep within her body, past her cervix and into her womb.

Lee held a hand against her stomach as she retreated inside herself again, feeling its length coiling and shrinking as the blood it had syphoned was returned to its host.

How often did she need to feed? Only once a month, but more often was better.

What gender was her true body? All worms were hermaphrodites, but could only bond to female human hosts.

Did she give birth to live babies or eggs? Eggs.

Did she carry all of the memories from her previous bodies? Yes.

How many bodies had she “owned” in the past? Sixteen.

“So you’re Sixteen years old?” Lee asked incredulously as he towelled himself dry.

“No, I was in my original host for several years after hatching,” Tania said. “The oldest human host I’ve taken was forty-two years old, and I have all of her memories, too. I’ve got about four-hundred and fifty years of aggregate experience I’ve absorbed throughout my life.”

“And what happens if you don’t find a new host?”

Tania paused, her own towel half-wrapped around her torso. She looked like she didn’t want to say, but just as Lee was about to drop the matter, she told him.

“If we don’t switch bodies after twelve months, we permanently fuse to our hosts. We’re still us, but it effectively means killing the human we’re currently bonded to and stealing their lives. It happens to all of us eventually - sometimes we find a body that just feels right, sometimes we just get tired of switching, sometimes we just don’t get the chance to before it’s too late. And when the human we’re permanently fused with dies, so do we.”

There was a lot more that Lee wanted to ask, but Tania clearly had more to say.

“This body has been good to me. To us. And I’d love to spend the rest of our lives together like this. But she’s a good girl, and I don’t think she deserves to have her life completely stolen just so that we can be together.”

“That’s why you asked. If I’d said I wouldn’t love you as a worm…”

Tania shook her head. “I don’t know. Maybe I would have stayed with you… I probably would have. But I’m glad I don’t have t-.” Tania caught herself, realising that she’d assumed she would have Lee’s support without actually asking him.

“You don’t want me to stay in this body, do you?”