Samsara

T-5 Onru: No, bring me one. They’re telepathic, they’re communicating that way. I need a leech.

Irantu moves across the room before grabbing a leech off of the ground. As he pulls it away from the liquid, it struggles and squirm, biting several large chunks out of his hand.

T-5 Irantu: Peculiar. (Pauses to look at the leech) Here.

T-5 Onru: Alright, one moment.

Onru extends her left hand towards the leech, which opens up to reveal a series of long, delicate, metallic rods with pointed tips. She maneuvers the rods into the flesh of the creature, near the base of the brain.

T-5 Onru: There. Let’s see. (Pauses) They heard the incinerator activate. They’re hungry. They’re coming up here to eat, a lot of them. The host is down below us, but I can’t see that far down. (Pauses) If I look at the neural activity of the entire network of entities, I can map out the areas they’re in. Let me see if I can do something with that. (Pauses) There we go. You should all have it on your retinas now.

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