The Stolen Host

When things started out Mari was a senior in highschool headed for university, a model student who prides her education. She‘d kept the secret relationship with the alien bonded inside her fairly well. And that relationship grew from a simple trade off arrangement to a deep friendship and eventually, in time, a very deep love. She named her partner after her favorite romance novel, a simple fantasy that ended up defining a pivotal point of her life. It wasn’t exactly how she imagined she’d fall in love, all tentacles and cravings. A symbiotic alien living inside her, both feeding off of and providing for her. But it brought her happiness, true complete happiness.

Mari acted as host to this alien and over time it became strongly bonded to her on a cellular level.

But she was eventually discovered, people came for her, took her away. She was separated from the life-form she held so dear by force. The process was excruciating both physically but more so emotionally.

For the next year Mari was kept locked away like a psych patient, studied, questioned, even drugged.

Hollow doesn‘t begin to describe the emptiness of both her mind and body.

Appearance:

• Tall: 6ft 5in

• Hair: curly brown

• Eyes: green

• Frame: petite, curvy, diminished (due to confinement)

• Demeanor: exhausted, recovering from severe illness (separation trauma)