Hive mind 2

I hadn’t tried to transform myself yet, and part of me was concerned that it wouldn’t be possible. After all, I didn’t actually have a baseline flesh form in this body, and I didn’t have the special part in my brain here either.

It was better to find out now than later. I slithered down the nearest alley, and I almost screamed as I shifted forms. It had been getting less and less painful in my original body, but it hurt as much now as it had the very first time. It took longer too, and I felt some resistance.

A moment later, I was naked in the middle of the alley in the middle of a clean trail, even as layered on filth was everywhere else in the alley. It looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in forever. It made me a little nauseous to think that I was essentially eating filth off the street, but this form didn’t seem to be vulnerable to normal diseases, and the process of devouring things would have destroyed most contaminants anyway.

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Lobster