Shiori & Venom
“We could’ve eaten her!”
“Venom… please shut up. Just this once.”
Shiori found herself sat down in an alleyway, hidden away from the light of the morning and surrounded by shadows. She tried to catch her breath to no avail, coughing a couple times from the stench of garbage around her.
Right as the quiet became familiar, Shiori turned her head to see the black mass stretching out from her back and forming a face near its tail end. Said face turned to look at her, the bright white eyes and rows of teeth intimidating anyone but her.
Shiori simply sighed.
“I don’t know what to think anymore…”
The face narrowed its eyes.
“Then let me take over.”
“Out of the question.”
“I need to feed!”
“And we need to survive!”
“Without me you are nothing!”
“I was something before you came along you godforsaken parasite!”
…
The silence felt deafening once both parties had let out their frustrations. The black mass receded into Shiori’s back, while said girl simply slouched back onto the ground.
“The one day I get to relax…”