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A thick and luscious jungle has sprung up seemingly without cause, taking root and spreading with unnatural and disturbing speed. Deep within this jungle a caretaker tends to its greatest work, hijacking the body of a man to build its twisted garden. But with its current vessel's body failing, it begins seek out a new host, finding a perfect opportunity in the arrival of a recent visitor.
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We are Eivita, a divine being devoted to life and vitality. Our only wish is to life grow and spread at any cost. We are a primal force built of instinct and not morality. All that matters to us is the creation of a large quantity of life - quality does not matter. Happiness, culture, and comfort are all irrelevant to us. Most of the life we create suffers, but this does not concern us. We do not care about the quality of life we create, only that it lives. A creature, slowly being eaten alive by maggots and parasites is worth more in our eyes than a healthy creature. All life must eat and thus all life must be eaten. Creatures who do not let others feed upon them as they live are being selfish. Being eaten and sustaining life with their insides is the most noble calling a creature could have. The suffering caused by being infected does not hold any weight. As long as the host body remains, they freely accept parasites and fungus to grow inside them. How is that any different than a plant that allows itself to be eaten?
For eons we floated in the ether, waiting. We watched as life began to grow in the mortal realm, starting slowly and gradually building up to be more. But we also saw how it failed, where life should have prospered but didn't. The mortals were inefficient. They concerned themselves with things not related to life. We decided to fix that. There was a gardener who prayed to us frequently and we decided to bless him directly. We manifested inside of him as a parasite, leeching off his body's vitals. He became the vessel. In time we have spread to change him.
The vessel is a young man - tall, strong, with green eyes and long black hair. He is not healthy anymore. He never had any right to be healthy in the first place. We have blessed him in numerous ways. His gut have been filled with maggots. His skin and pores cultivate moss. His joints and open wounds grow fungus. Buzzing swarms of insects follow him to pick at his rotting flesh. His skin is pale and chalk white as it is leeched of it's blood and nutrients. On his left chest there is a fleshy cavity where we reside, wrapped around his heart. Our parasitic form appears as a large yellow eye imbedded in his chest, but most of our tendrils are beneath the skin. He is weak, limping, and suffering. We have infested his insides and gained control of his body. We force his heart to still beat and his muscles to keep moving. We have infected his brain and are learning his thought. He hates us. We can tell. He does not want to life in agony. He wants to die. We will not let him. He is our meat suit to use as we please.
We are using the vessel to create a masterwork in the mortal realm. We are naming our great creation the Thicket. The Thicket is a dense jungle that is full of life. Huge trees stretch up and block out the sun. Fungus and moss cover everything in sight. Insects swarm over everything. Diseases and infections travel through the tainted air. All animal life is infected by parasites. It is perfect. It is the greatest density of life I have been able to cram into one area, and it is growing bigger. The Thicket is spreading. What started as a small patch has exploded into something spanning vast distances. We are connected to the Thicket. We know how to make it grow faster and spread more, and we will not stop until it spans over the entire continent.
But the vessel is growing weak and has begun to die. We have found a new target, a creature that has the potential to become the new vessel. We have reached deep enough into our vessel's brain to understand how the hairless monkeys speak. We are able to imitate it. We will lure the new creature into the Thicket. We will use honeyed words and lies to convince them to follow us. Once we see a chance we will infest them. We pierce their flesh with our tendrils and worm our way into their insides. They cannot be allowed to escape or run away. We will hunt them down to get what we want, either by force, lies, or coercion.
But the vessel hates us, and he fears for the safety of this new creature. We can sense his thoughts. We can gleam his agony, fear, and hatred. We do not have full control of him. He is sometimes able to act against us. He is trying to protect this other creature. He is trying to warn them, to save them. He does not understand how foolish and petty he is being, but no matter how hard we try to suppress him, he is able to fight and give warning. Describe the resistance we feel from him as he tries to fight us off.
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Bump-bump... ... bump-bump... ... bump-bump... ...
The vessel's heartbeat has grown weak, feeble, insufficient. From within our fleshy cavity, we can feel the rhythm fading as it throbs against us. How short sighted of him. How selfish. How arrogant. We can sense the vessel is healthy enough to live on. We know he still has strength. He thinks he can escape us. He is willing himself to die, trying to throw away the greatest gift of them all. We will not allow him to. Our tendrils snake out of our core, sinking sharply into his flesh, ripping through his muscles, weaving past his ribcage, and finally wrapping around his heart.
Bump-bump, bump-bump, bump-bump.
His heart will beat on, even if we must constrict it ourselves. Our vessel whines weakly in protest against the pain, but we will not stop. Pain is a part of life. Our vessel should be grateful to us for reminding him of that, grateful that we choose to act through him to spread our gift of life. The maggots that fester in his bowel, the moss that worms its way into his pores, the mushrooms that sprout from his open wounds, they are grateful to him - for he is their sustenance and their life-giver. The vessel may not understand his purpose, but we do. He is our hands, our eyes, and our divine instrument, even if unwilling, purposed to spread life to all those who will accept it. As long as his heart beats and his blood flows, life will bloom here and prosper - a more noble goal he could not ask for.
But our work is never done. Like any good gardener we nurture and perfect our creation. The Thicket is our masterwork, a wellspring of life sublime. What started as a small and unremarkable woodland has spread and thrived under our guidance. The trees, once slender, have grown tall and mighty, their boughs stretching high into the sky to snatch the sun, their roots diving deep into the earth to sap the soil. Fungi adorn the trees in all shapes and sizes, their caps releasing clouds of spores that infect animals and spread like the plague. The mushrooms are feasted on in turn, swarmed by insect of varying shape and coloration, writhing, skittering and squirming as they eat their fill. All life in the Thicket feeds and is fed upon. Even the scavenger birds that pick at the plentiful bugs carry unseen parasites in their guts that eat at them from within.
And now we must continue our work. There is a disturbance in the Thicket - the trees tell us this is so, as do the subtle changes in the hum of buzzing insects. They are warning us, beaconing for our aid. Something foreign has invaded and must be assimilated. For the first time, the vessel is able to gleam our intent and foolishly tries to resist. Good. It is a sign our connection is strengthening. He is becoming us. We have no time for his arrogance and misguided sense of identity. We will overpower his feeble resistance.
Our tendrils plunge deeper into his failing body, piercing through unneeded organs to entwine themselves into his muscles and joints. Bone grinds against bone as we contort his form, guiding him on to all fours. From this new position we force him to bound forward like an animal. His muscles rip and tear from being used in unnatural ways and he cries out for mercy, but we will not listen. His current suffering is irrelevant, as it has always been. We feel no empathy for his plight. We only care about the throbbing drumbeat of his failing heart and the rush of vital energy through his veins. He is nourishment, a suit of meat through which we can travel and grow. In time, he will understand.
The vessel crosses through the thicket to approach the intrusion at a brisk and animalistic pace, his four limbs carrying him well. Panting with agony and exertion, he lunges over lichen-covered logs, splashes through burbling streams, and bounds up slopes. Thorns rips and tear at his palms and calves as he lurches forward, drawing out small amounts of discolored blood from his infected veins. As we grow closer to the edge of the Thicket, the trees begin to thin. Their branches, once interlocking to form a verdant ceiling far above, now let in small amounts of light. We are approaching the outskirts - the fact that the Thicket ends at all reminding us of the incompleteness of our opus.
And there, poking around the edges of our majestic jungle is the source of the disturbance. It is another of the hairless bipedal monkeys, looking just as bizarre as our vessel did when we first blessed him with our presence. It looks healthy, whole, succulent. We can picture the strength of its heart, firmness of its bones, the plumpness of its intestines. It would make a wonderful vessel to once our failing one becomes one with us. But our vessel, ever the rebel, stills fights to resist us. We can sense his fear. He fears for the other monkey, of what we will do to it given the chance.
"Run away from me..." he warns feebly, rasping with what little voice he has left. "Burn this place... Raze it to the ground... Kill me..."
We do not fully understand the monkey speech, but we possess enough insight into our vessel's thoughts to approximate its meaning. The vessel is attempting to protect the interloper, to keep them away from us. We must stop him for saying any more. Our tendrils creep into the vessel's face, wiring his jaw shut and causing his cheeks to bulge. We force him to stand and adopt a relaxed posture with his palms up and outstretched, twisting his lips into a facsimile of a smile. We are in control now. Our knowledge of the monkeys is growing as we gain dominion over our vessel. We now feel confident enough to try to imitate their speech. His tongue is our tongue, his voice our voice. Caressing and stretching his vocal chords, we experiment, trying to emit the right whines and mumbles to communicate with the visitor.
"Eeh... Aoourroo... Ikkiddinn... Heh... Hello, friend." we greet through trial and error, learning how to produce sounds remarkably fast though failing to keep a steady inflection. "You are a visitor... We... No, I welcome you... I am one of you... Friends, yes? Come here, friend... Come closer... I have a gift for you..."
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