Mind reprogramming

There were twenty woman in the tent; they'd finished singing their nightly songs, and all twenty of them suddenly froze as I took over their minds. One of them lay down, and a slime version of me slid over her and started to dissolve her body even as I crushed her ability to breathe. The others saw none of it. I was reprogramming their minds.

***

I finished up with the woman who had been beneath me, and I slipped her clothing on. The other versions of me were finished. The women themselves wouldn't be aware that anything had changed until they were triggered, at which point they would turn against their masters and turn into a liability to the Fae instead of a weapon.

Like shadows, the other versions of me vanished, and the women around me started moving again, resuming their conversation as though nothing had happened.

***

Treason