Squick

You feel yourself bathed in the sickly green light again. It stops after a moment. Your nose itches.

“What did you do? I don’t feel any different.”

“I simply adjusted your sinus cavity to make it an ideal home for this.”

He holds up an inch long slug like creature with blue jellyfish like tentacles.

You make a face.

“Before you get all squirrelly, my pet, listen to the story of Allumbra four. It’s a planet remarkably similar to the earth, where we evolved. The sky is blue, the grass is green and the most intelligent creature on the planet is, by parallel evolution, extremely similar to early man. While they are the most intelligent creatures on the planet, they aren’t the dominant life form. That distinction belongs to a rabbit sized carnivore which happens to be the home of a this symbiote. This little critter gives birth to a larvae that houses itself in the brain of its victim and connects to the pleasure and pain centers. It rewards it’s host when they obey and think subservient thoughts about the queen’s host. After a week or two the life form with the larva is completely enslaved to the queen’s host.”

“So I can use this to make obedient little slaves?”

“Yes, but that isn’t the best part. Even if the larva dies, the victims brain remains completely rewired. I’m not even sure a mindwipe would change it.”

The idea of letting the little slug in your nose is sounding much better.

“Are you ready?”

“Do it!”

He slides it up your nose. It is painless and barely noticeable. Suddenly, your mind opens up to its presence. You realize you can easily will it to produce larva at a fairly quick pace.

You pull Tad into a kiss. It is long and wet and passionate. You move his ear and will your symbiote to produce a larva. You nibble on Tad’s ear. You feel the newly produced larva slide into your mouth. You release it.

“Tad you always give the nicest gifts.”

You know the old Raina never have even considered enthralling him. Either your new hybrid personality or perhaps the little slug in your nose has made you more daring.

As the larva disappears into the darkness of Tad’s ear, you whisper...