Alex woke up, and felt something… strange. Last he knew he had been fading in and out of consciousness, slowly bleeding out in the filthy trench after he had gotten shot crawling back from the no man's land. Then he swam through layers upon layers of shadows for what felt like days, his sanity melting away.

Now he was in a strange body with someone else that he couldn't even communicate with because they just thought to themselves constantly instead of to him.

After a few hours he managed to get their attention with a “loud” thought.

[Hey! I'm Alex! Are you a human too?]

The other thought back,

[My name's Alexei. Yes, I'm a human. Where are you?]

[We're sharing a body right now, and maybe forever. I don't know how to-

System calibration necessary.

Lost souls: Alex

And

Alexei

Fusing now

Combined produce

Alexei, “nickname” Alex.

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Final product: Unique Dove Angeli, marked by the 3rd.

As Alexei and Alex's memories grew more and more fleeting, all Alexei could remember was his desire to move freely, and his hemophilia. Alex kept most of his personality, yet large fractions of his past were peeled away. Everything they kept felt foggy and blurred. Then they were fused, their minds merging to form one being with Alexei’s desires and some of his memories and Alex's mind fueling them.

Alex wakes from the fusion induced slumber. The first thing he noticed was his immense hunger, and the second thing he noticed was his surroundings. He lay in a marble palace, the sun shining in his eye. He noticed something else, too. His eye had a blue iris with a golden glowing ring around his pupil. The aforementioned pupil looked more like a void than an actual part of an eye, but it wasn't that strange.

He was hungry, so he would eat. He began to search for some food in the palace, but the whole thing had crumbled to disrepair so he had nothing to eat. He never stopped to think about not having a visible mouth, which may have been another setback. In any case, he finally found something to eat after flying for a few hours. A bird in its nest with 3 freshly laid eggs. He had no way to kill the bird, and the sun had fallen past the horizon so he went to sleep on top of a pillar.

When he woke up his hunger had only intensified, and he noticed the bird had left its nest. So, he tried to eat one of its eggs for a few minutes. Eventually his mouth opened when his void of a pupil dilated and then slowly began to cover his whole eye. Fangs appeared when his eye was a pure void, and he went from a floating eye to a floating mouth full to the brim with dozens of teeth. A massive prehensile tongue lolled out of his mouth and he used it to pull two of the eggs in and eat them whole, saving the last for later.

Now it was time to find the bird. He flew about searching for it, and when he found it he opened his maw and pulled it in.

System active:

Dove consumed!

Dove discovered. Keep eating more living creatures to absorb their life force and eventually grow into a more mature life form.

Alex thought, fascinating… a “Dove”. I remember doves! From before I lost my memory! They were little white birds associated with love! I hope I can keep gaining more knowledge like that, and maybe remember my past.