Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34078162-20190228034241/@comment-36855838-20190228070933

"Hello!"

I freeze, adrenaline pumping, but petrified with surprise.

It spoke.

It sounded just like-

"Are you alright, human? I may be rather large, but I promise not to eat you!"

She slowly begins to circle me, inspecting my limbs, comparing herself to me.

"H-how do you look like her?"

She stops, her human torso pressed against my back, her head on my ight shoulder, her arms laid atop my own, our fingers intertwined.

"Do I look like somebody you know? Perhaps the cleric I ate, I think it was a female human, yesss."

I felt a deep seated fury boiling up, mom had always had her holy books in the house, and carried talismans with her when she travelled.

"I am certain I have taken her form, so tell me, who was she to you?"

I struggle in her grasp, but it's no use, and she slowly wraps her arms around my chest, almost too tight to breathe.

"She was my mother!"

I struggle again, and manage to bite her arm. She squeals aith an ear piercing shriek and balls up, her armored body covering her soft flesh with ease.

I pick up a branch and start bashing the centipede.

"Why-"

"Did-"

"You-"

"Eat-"

"Her-"

The monster sprung into the air like a snake, tackling me to the ground.

Despite her strength, she was surprisingly light.

Still, she pinned me, using her many legs as anchors.

"I bear none of the ill will you seem to carry, I was merely famished when she wandered by, chanting her bothersome prayers. You must be aware that we centipedes are the emblems of corruption?"

Now it made sense, a creature this steeped in inherited evil would feel excruciating pain when exposed to a priest.

But-

"How are you even alive?"

"Well, my meal had just started to kick in when you showed up, and then I was transformed!"