Slime form 4

It took some experimentation, but I discovered that I could switch my mind back and forth between the two slimes in the storm drains. I could only inhabit one of them at a time, and when I wasn’t inside of one, the other simply went back to what it had been doing, generally lying in wait to devour whatever was in the storm drain with them. They’d cleaned a large swath of the drain; whereas I remembered the walls being covered with algae and all sorts of mold when I’d been in the drains, the walls here had been scoured clean.

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I didn’t actually know whether either of the slimes had already budded off; the sub-slimes wouldn’t have enough nodes for me to connect with; their minds would be too simple. Normally this kind of slime would split long before it became sentient or sapient enough to have anything like real intelligence.

The nice thing about being a slime was that I couldn’t actually smell anything, and even if I formed a nose and allowed myself to inhale, scents that should have been disgusting or even horrifying actually smelled pleasant.

I crawled out of a storm drain, and I took stock of my surroundings.

It had been a chilly evening, but I didn’t actually feel it now, despite the fact that I was essentially naked. I’d managed to form an approximation of clothing, changing my outline even though I was still mostly transparent.

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Lobster