The moment Bea's true body appeared within the fractured mental zone of the green head, the feedback hit like a thunderclap.
Kain gasped aloud, staggering as a surge of mental pressure cascaded through their link—not pain, not confusion, but pure strength. Almost as if a spiritual fish that had become accustomed to living on land, was finally returned to the water, and remembered what it had been missing out on that whole time.
Indeed, Bea, who was originally a Brain Eating Amoeba, was at her strongest and most comfortable in the mind of her prey. She had just grown so accustomed to using only her splits, and since she no longer needed to eat the brain itself and could just feed on the memories extracted by her splits, she'd really forgotten how great it was.
And now, beyond her expectations, she suddenly appeared in the mind of another creature unprepared with a complex mixture of emotions: confusion, comfort, fear.
