It ran.

Two leggers put food in it’s home.

It ate food.

All are happy.

Two legger touches it.

Bite.

Two legger screams.

It needs to run.

How to get away?

What do the two leggers do?

They put things beneath their bodies and lift themselves up.

It tries it, but can’t lift itself properly.

It needs other movement options…

Grab things and make grabbers shorter?

Launch itself at area it grappels and hit the ground?

Works.

Making ball and rolling after that?

Works too.

New movement: be ball, hit ground, grapple things it needs to go around.

Works.

Loud noises interrupt!

Loud noises grow close.

Do not like!

Hide?

Push against corner and hope nobody sees it!

Two leggers stare at it.

Two leggers come close.

Sing? Sing!

Take out sing skin.

Vibrate sing skin.

„Ring around the rosie

A pocketful of posies

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Ashes, ashes

We all fall down“

It sang, hoping they would turn away, and indeed, they did, fixing their gaze on the wall and walking on, completely Ignoring the creature covered in hair like tentacles and small sensory hairs.

Pressing against the wall.

Two leggers away.

Hide?

Vibrate to see.

See hole in up-wall.

Grab onto up-wall?

Push ground, pull up-wall.

Hide!

Two leggers everywhere.

Need to rest.

Enter trance.

Focus on mind, no longer body.

Make mind understand.

Make mind stop hurting.

Too much things for mind.

Make mind bigger.

Take two legger brian?

Put tentacle on brian, make sound, take control.

Wake up?

Wake up, search Brian.

Vibrate sing skin to search.

Vibrations hit feel hair

Two legger close.

Two legger alone

Fall from top wall.

Sing.

„Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpti Dumpti had a great fall;

Threescore men and threescore more,

Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before“

Doesn’t react?

Attack head!

Put metal thing from head.

Continue singing.

Works, satisfied.

Pierce head.

Hold tight.

Cut open head.

Connect to brian.

Feel?

Things.

I am John

Don’t want to be John.

Overwrite?

Overwrite.

I am…

Search Brian… no, Brain, for me.

I am P 01.

I am Pione.

I need to eat.

Don’t want to see.

Eat and merge head.

Keep brain sustained.

Slowly eat body and merge with brain.

Reach trance to minimize energy waste while absorbing.

Grasp onto Instinct of blueprint: Teratoma.

-How to connect a brain?

Create: heart.

Create: blood vessels.

Create: lungs.

Link to: Brain.

-adapt protocols.

Absorb body.

Create oxygen storage beneath the skin.

Grow tentacles designed to suck in oxygen.

Create Carbon storage beneath sing skin.

Grow muscles to pump carbon around the song skin, making singing easier.

Grow structure around core: Brain.

Link brain with stomach and lungs through: blood vessels.

Initiate stasis to preserve energy while conducting major changes

Why am I… sleepy?

And so, Pione curled her tentacles around Johns body, recycling his Biomass to further develop her own body and allow for the accommodation of a brain.

She never even thought about the stupidness of sleeping in the middle of a hallway, when a lot of ‚two leggers‘ are looking for her…