Symbiote internal speaking = (ABC)
Symbiote external speaking = "ABC"
Other line of phone = :::ABC:::
After eating more then Beth ever could imagine, she went to one of the spare rooms. She used this one for painting. She was currently painting something. Beth herself wasn't sure what it was exactly. That and it didn't feel like she was the one painting it.
Drying the brushes off she looked back at the canvas. There was a large red spider like thing stretching across the canvas with black trim around the red. And strips coming inward from the edges with the same coloring.
(It's beautiful love.)
"Uhm thanks sooo you gonna talk now about how all this is happening?"
Beth returned to her favorite spot on the couch in the living room continuing the conversation in her head like a loon.
(We are not from here. We come from elsewhere but that does not matter. We are here now.)
"What are you?"
(We are known as a symbiote.)
"Soooo back in the forest last night-"
(We connected we became one.)
Beth nodded. "When I tripped how did you do that. . . Thingy?"
The voice chuckled. Beth was a vibrant. They could've easily snuck off into the night to find a different host but Beth had been there. They could feel them being drawn to her by her purity. And now she was beaming like a child full of questions.
(There is much we can do love.)
"What do I call you?"
(We are Mercury love.)
". . . Mercury?"
(Yes love.)
"What exactly can you do?"
(Many things love. Many things. We can keep you safe. We can take over-)
"What do you mean 'take over'?"
(We shall show you love.)
Beth walk outside it was already starting to get dark. She had the same feeling from before. Like she wasn't doing this.
Once outside Beth felt pained, her insides felt like they were moving and her skin felt like it was ripping apart. She collapsed to her knees on the ground. Everything felt blurred.
When she opened her eyes she was back in the house near the door looking at the huge mirror that hung there.
(We're sorry love. After a while it will no longer hurt.)
Beth blinked looking in the mirror. It was. . . Different to say the least. Her hair was completely covered in a white mass with black and red tips at the end, all stuck together like it was one thing. Neck down was almost the same way white with red and black stripes. Her chest looked oddly familiar.
"The painting!"
Mercury chuckled (Yes love.)
The white on the sides of her neck and hear line started to stretch over her face.
"Wait! What-?!"
(Don't worry love we will protect you.)
Now Beth could see a mask the eyes were odd but colored the same as everything else. Red with black trim. But she wasn't controlling herself when they started going back outside towards the forest. Before Beth could ask. Mercury said "We'll explain later. Now we hunt."
The sight in front of her was slightly disgusting.
What the two didn't notice was a large white pair of eyes that had been watching as Mercury had webbed a deer to the ground and cracked it's skull open. And the eyes were still watching as Mercury ate the contents from inside. Strangely to Beth it wasn't bad. Who would have thought brains would taste so sweet.
Mercury stood up. Pulling herself into the tree tops, swinging from tree to tree with the white web like substance.
They were pretty far from the house it would take a while to get back.
They watched the female leave before dropping down next to the deers body. Quickly scarfing down pieces of meat before leaving what was left of the carcass. Returning to the shadows.