“Oh, you’re finally awake,” Cynthia’s voice greeted Eva as she groggily woke up from bed. “That must’ve been a nasty piece of fish, we really shouldn’t eat at that restaurant again”
Eva still felt ill, her insides churning in weird directions. “What? I don’t remember…”, she said, then she realized she was nude under the sheets.
“You puked and passed out in the toilet, had to clean up afterwards,” Cynthia explained, giving Eva a glass, “Here, take some medicine.”
A brief memory of her horrible nightmare flashed in Eva’s mind, causing tears to well up in her eyes. She flung herself into Cynthia’s embrace, glad that it was all a dream…
In reality, however, the symbiote was busy at work, morphing Eva’s body into a vessel worthy of a Queen. The white slime clung tightly onto her writhing form as she bucked and turned on her bed, her decoupled mind entirely unaware of the changes.
The change will take days, faster than Tylix’s process with Cynaith preparing the ideal conditions for the fledgling Queen. In Eva’s mind, however, she was merely recovering from a bad case of food poisoning. Bed-ridden, strangely without any thought of wanting to leave the bed. Her mind already a plaything for the growing symbiote.
Artist’s Note:
For the story’s pacing, we couldn’t fit the same weeks long process of Tyler/Tylix’s change for Eva, so her change will be much more accelerated. She will share the same split reality view as did Tyler, but with a more dire ending.