Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 4 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 4

... comtanimation.”

“Close, it’s contamination,” Noah corrected.

“I hope he’s not making you do anything too scary.”

“N-no, it’s fine. I’m learning a lot from Lord Noah, and it’s nice having a way I can help.”

She didn’t make eye contact when she spoke, but it wasn’t because of the scenery around them. Whenever Shannon looked at Valia, she was reminded of that night and her father. Valia could hear it in her voice and see it in her downcast eyes. There was no blaze of hatred or the desire for revenge in her heart, just an aching wound that refused to scab and fear of a memory that hung over her head like a circling buzzard. Still, that despondence encouraged Valia, and she placed her hand on Shannon’s shoulder, forcing her to look up.

“I’m glad. I’m not cut out for this kind of work, so we’re lucky to have you with us.”

“Thank you,” Shannon replied, with a hint of relief.

“Enjoying yourself, are you?” Valia asked Noah as she put on the smock and other garments.

“You could say that. As a scientist, there are few things more exciting than cutting into something I’ve never seen before.”

Valia got up on a step stool on the opposite side of the operation table and looked at the parasite, shivering and agitated, aware of its vulnerability and the attention on it.

“It doesn’t look very friendly.”

“I have something for that. Shannon, the needles.” Upon his word, she presented a tray of needles, each coated with a drug. “I would have liked to perform ...

... this on a dead one, but their bodies melt to sludge too quickly for any real study. I’m starting to think they were designed that way to keep their secrets. I went through many parasites and hosts just to find the right combination of drugs that would put them to sleep.”

With a steady hand, Noah began inserting the needles into the parasite. Initially, it hissed and thrashed, even trying to ward him off with sharp barbs growing out of its back, but the drugs worked their way into the creature’s system and silenced it. Once the parasite was sedated, Noah made a long incision down its back. He then used the forceps to widen the opening, showing the wrinkled gray tissue underneath.

“Valia, you’ve seen what people are made of. What does that look like to you?”

“I think that looks like… brains?”

“That is definitely brain matter.” Noah continued the operation, slowly carving into the spongey mass without killing the parasite. “Snakes have their poison gland beneath their eyes, but though the Profane fangs are most similar to snakes, their venom gland appears to be situated in the actual brain. How fitting for what is essentially liquid evil. Ah, there we go.” He pointed his scalpel at a small balloon-like nodule. “That must be the gland, and this line of tissue here is the compressor muscle that pushes it through the system.”

“Fascinating, but revolting. How is this helpful?”

“Because now I know what to target. These monsters are resistant to most drugs and poisons, ...