"God"

Steadily, slowly, this creature focused on refining processes, breaking down the resources it was given and using them efficiently.  It clarified how it perceived the external world, and how it understood its own form, and *it tracked everything it had done before by writing it all into its own skeletal structure* .

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All five of the organs are soon removed.  *Many resources have been wasted, but this creature can write the learned detail to its bones, through structural chains built on a sub-cellular level.  Crude, but placement, composition and general purpose can be transcribed.*

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The weapons it was developing were new, too.  These ones were old, considered and written into its bones long ago, a response to the loss of its brains, to the loss of heads.  A memory from long ago swiftly became a reality today, scythes of bone on forelimbs and wingtips.  The creature was turning back to old, forgotten ideas that had been deemed too resource-heavy, more responses to the cutting, strengthening the connections between cells, making the cells rigid and less likely to tear.

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It heard the cries of fear, and it memorized them, as it had so recently memorized words like artillery, gun, grenade, wagon, and scythe.  Those cries were written to memory, as the existence of the creature’s brother was written deep into the bone plates it was growing.

Enemy Arc 9