The host has a voracious appetite, that being an appetite at all. The parasite didn't know anything about the material world, but the cept of destroying something, and then break it down to its base parts is a novel ohe body of the host uses those broken down pos to fuel itself, which is a y in material space. The father never spoke of the material realms much, other than that they are filled with dangerous things that could give even him trouble. The parasite has to aowledge that the host knows much more about the material realm, and the more the parasite learns, the more it sees how much the host has its knowledge ingrained by time.
When it faced the dog-like sgers, every move it made was made to intimidate. The host stretched her facial muscles to reveal her teeth, which should easily pierce most things ierial realm. A threat, a simple ohe host also stood as tall as possible all the time, despite the muscles iail not bei for this purpose. The parasite didn't know why the host was being more careless than usual with her own body, until a spear deflected off of her tail. Had she stayed closer to the ground, the sger might have been more ined to hit a less well protected area, or even the host's precious ial .
Then the parasite watched as the host captured the sgers, and from what the parasite could tell from the nerve es, done so with the i of learning their nguage, and interrogating them. The reading of surface level thoughts went ued, firming the parasite's theory that while the host's trol of their bloodstreams is absolute, they are pletely deaf to the other ws of her own body. Right to the point of not knowing something is happening within her if the nerves aren't telling her. Expanding further into the host wasn't trivial, but it was pletely unnoticed. The parasite had to be careful not to trip on any blood vessels as it expas influehroughout the body, and the nerves wouldn't tell the host anything if the parasite didn't want them to.
The parasite was so absorbed in expanding, it didn't even notice what was happening until the chi soup ehe system. The host had appropriated some carrion, and began the process of breaking down the pos. The parasite itself was eager to try this in its own manner, and started siphoning resources acquired by the host. Turns out, the blood carries over these nutrients rather quickly, and in the parasite's haste actally devoured some of the blood cells itself. This act didn't go unnoticed by the host, but she didn't seem too ined to punish the parasite either.
As the parasite fed on the resources with calm for the first time in its short life, it wondered why the host didn't greatly value the blood cells if it was its main on. As it traced the cells to the source, it was surprised to find that the blood cells were produced by a spongy material within the bones. It was quite ied in this process, as the host's weakness could easily lie in the source of its strength, but the bone marrow was heavily defehick streams of magically enhanced blood flowed around the bones, along with an unusually high amount of the security blood cells. It has frequently withese cells bat other tiny fn lifeforms that feed off the host as well. The parasite decided to leave these factories alone, but they wouldn't go unobserved.
The host is now asleep, put to an unscious state by the grueling effort of staying scious in material space. The parasite move much more freely now, but killing or hijag the host pletely is out of the question. It will die without the host as it cks the knowledge and the strange power that gives the host greater trol over its own blood thahe parasite, and hijag it will fail as the host demonstrated it only he brain to stay funing to fight using this. Rising the body to its tail, the parasite quickly notices that movement like this is exceptionally strained, maybe this body wasn't meant to move on this terrain? She certainly seemed more mobile iradimensional space.
It matters little, the parasite may not have magic, but it has other tricks in its arsenal. It's long legs phase out of the back of the body, aend to the grou shiny bck legs materialize their points as they touch the floor, and push the body to suspend it in the air slightly, the body is te to stand up properly, but the force it exert like this is enough. The parasite will need information in the no doubt short time the host sleeps, and it knows just where to get it. Opening the hatch to the lower levels, the parasite carries the body to the prisoners collected by the host.
"JAN WORD WAKKER ER IS IETS MIS MET DE VIS!" The loud noises made by the prisoners could potentially wake up the host, if the ears weren't currently non-funal. No nerves will be rep anything to the sleeping host on the parasite's watch.
SpoilerJAN WAKE UP THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE FISH!
[colpse]The parasite approaches the restrained prisoners, very happy that they are restrained right now. It makes things so much easier. The parasite gets close to one of them, and quickly jabs its tohrough the ium and into the brain. This should be the pce where it houses the memories, and thus information on this material realm. The other screams at the sight of the extradimensional parasite's to's a long, barbed and flexible thing, meant to pierce evehickest of hides to extract whatever it wants to. Soon enough, both of the dogs now lie dead on the ground. The parasite returns to the , and referehe retly acquired information with what the host has been doing. As expected, the host has done excellently so far sidering she doesn't know the loguages, a little too well, perhaps.
The parasite crawls the body to a nightstand with a book in it, in the book are various he host mao write down. Geographical location, local forces and their strengths, potion recipes that she mao decipher, and notes on a certain parasite with its potential weakhe parasite destroys the notes on itself, careful to not damage the rest, as inplete as it is.
It must have the host as focused on the locals as much as possible if it wants to take over one day after all.
