If it prefers blood, it wouldn't have been getting enough to eat by staying inside of you. Maybe that's why it left. To find food.
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Or maybe it was trying to go home. Looking for a way back into space when it knew you were asleep.
[ It's an odd feeling that settles over him when he says thatβit's a gruesome thing, and a parasite, hurting someone he cares for very deeply. But it's a sentiment he can relate to, even in an animal, this idea of being in an alien, unsuitable environment, of every thought being preoccupied with a return to the conditions in which one is comfortableβthe conditions one evolved to live in. ]
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If it prefers blood, it wouldn't have been getting enough to eat by staying inside of you. Maybe that's why it left. To find food.
[ Beat. ]
Or maybe it was trying to go home. Looking for a way back into space when it knew you were asleep.
[ It's an odd feeling that settles over him when he says thatβit's a gruesome thing, and a parasite, hurting someone he cares for very deeply. But it's a sentiment he can relate to, even in an animal, this idea of being in an alien, unsuitable environment, of every thought being preoccupied with a return to the conditions in which one is comfortableβthe conditions one evolved to live in. ]