Cosmozoan - Tiny Predator
Rameses
((The Void Sea))
Thwum.
Thwum.
Thwum.
Rhythmic. Pattern. Calling. Distant but nearing.
The space flows. Ebbs and tides. Songs. Many songs in the dark. Many lights in the dark.
Binary. Trinary. And Solitary. In front. Above and behind.
Smaller lights float by, distant. Some with the energy of folded space. They could feel it. Some lights grow closer. Stutter and retreat. They cannot endure the waves. Its waves. They’re not good swimmers. She watches. She remembers. Each light is different. Frequency variances. She remembers. She is tired, but waking. Slowly.
Thwum.
Thwum. Thwummuuu Thwum.
Rhythmic pattern again, like calls of others. Like the old songs. Familiar songs.
Ripples. Warped Ripples. Another light draws closer. So fast it swims. Like the lights from before. The confused lights that stung. Polaron venom and photonic stingers. She had to defend. Lights faded, some could not swim with her waves. Some lights fled.
This new light, it slows. Distant, but close enough to feel her waves. She’s curious. Will this one be a good swimmer or will it withdraw, or die like the others?
She watches the light that matches her course. Its energy. Different from other lights. Calmness. But something else. Predator.
Curious. Cautious. Must know more. She focuses on the tiny predator that stalks along with her. Subvocalizations, energy directed at this new light. Scanning sight.
A massive eye turns to observe the light closer. Space around her ripples as her sight buffets the tiny light nearby with focused particles. She sees, predator carrying life inside. Too much sight, too quickly. She does not want to hurt or provoke the predatory light. She weakens her sight so it doesn’t make its energy and shell hurt anymore. She sees it. Varied life inside the hard shell. Energy barrier protecting shell. Many minds. Matter Anti-matter heart. Photonic stingers. Nadion venom. Confirmation this light is tiny predator.
No threat. No need to defend for now.
Thwummmu.
Calling song repeats. She will follow. Let tiny predator follow if it can, if it wants. Must conserve energy. Calling song far still.
She moves, undulations in the void that create waves from her immense form. The energy on her skin ripples with the natural movements and coalesce in her tail as it reaches the medium point of its traversal. Expelled behind to propel forward while minute discharges off her skin affect her pitch and yaw. Or expel forward to keep her speed constant.
Natural movements. Simple. Efficient. She must conserve. The calling song is far still.
((ooc: Our first look at the cosmozoan’s perspective. As a clarification to avoid any confusion when it ‘looks’ at the Ronin think of it like a scanning beam, way too powerful at first so have fun with just what sort of effect it has on the ship and its systems before the creature adjusts the power of its observation. ))
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Unknown Entity
As simmed by
Commander Toryn Raga
First Officer
USS Ronin - NCC-34523
Writer ID: A239410TR0
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