Thanks for the compliments, all. I always worry about how things are going to read because I do so few major edits. I don't write something, walk away,
then come back and re-order it and add new stuff. It almost always flows in linear fashion. This took me about... 2-1/2 hours to write I think. Maybe 3. And I
do work hard on trying to get into not just the visual part of a scene, but describe it so that you have at least 3 senses engaged/described. Sight and hearing
of course. Maybe smell or touch.
When writing this, I was thinking - what does Hamidon remind me of? The best answer I can think of - anyone ever read Greg Bear's Blood Music? If you know the reference, think of that applied not just to organics, but EVERYTHING.
Hamidon is an intelligent, grey goo nanotech disaster, really.
The thing is - Lily really did faceplant once while fighting the Hamidon the other night in the LGTF. She got back up again (self res) but here's the
thing. It's mentioned in the story, but despite Lily's organic nature, she is basically like a crystal. And as smooth and porcelain as her skin and
flesh may be, I think that it's constantly undergoing tiny breaks and fractures. Especially at her joints. But it's at a microscopic level. And she
heals so quickly that you wouldn't be able to see it even if it were larger. Sort of like stress fractures in an ice flow, really.
Normal Hami creatures wouldn't be able to take advantage of that. But this is Hami, and she was right there, inside the boundary of the cell wall as she
was fighting. He got a teeny little bit of himself insinuated when she went down for a moment. It just took several days for that little piece to start trying
to take over.
Now - what exactly happened?
She started getting taken over. And backed by her will, her regeneration factor kicked into high gear. But the only way to get rid of the Hamidon infection was
to expel every last bit of crystal. So she did. Forced it right out to the outside of her body, leaving behind her original organic body. Then the
"diseased" part sloughed off.
And why is her memory gone?
Because her everything in her body got replaced by normal flesh, including her brain. The memories are likely
there. But her brain works in a wholly different way now.
Will we see her again as Lily?
Well - that would be telling, now, wouldn't it? ^_^
then come back and re-order it and add new stuff. It almost always flows in linear fashion. This took me about... 2-1/2 hours to write I think. Maybe 3. And I
do work hard on trying to get into not just the visual part of a scene, but describe it so that you have at least 3 senses engaged/described. Sight and hearing
of course. Maybe smell or touch.
When writing this, I was thinking - what does Hamidon remind me of? The best answer I can think of - anyone ever read Greg Bear's Blood Music? If you know the reference, think of that applied not just to organics, but EVERYTHING.
Hamidon is an intelligent, grey goo nanotech disaster, really.
The thing is - Lily really did faceplant once while fighting the Hamidon the other night in the LGTF. She got back up again (self res) but here's the
thing. It's mentioned in the story, but despite Lily's organic nature, she is basically like a crystal. And as smooth and porcelain as her skin and
flesh may be, I think that it's constantly undergoing tiny breaks and fractures. Especially at her joints. But it's at a microscopic level. And she
heals so quickly that you wouldn't be able to see it even if it were larger. Sort of like stress fractures in an ice flow, really.
Normal Hami creatures wouldn't be able to take advantage of that. But this is Hami, and she was right there, inside the boundary of the cell wall as she
was fighting. He got a teeny little bit of himself insinuated when she went down for a moment. It just took several days for that little piece to start trying
to take over.
Now - what exactly happened?
She started getting taken over. And backed by her will, her regeneration factor kicked into high gear. But the only way to get rid of the Hamidon infection was
to expel every last bit of crystal. So she did. Forced it right out to the outside of her body, leaving behind her original organic body. Then the
"diseased" part sloughed off.
And why is her memory gone?
Because her everything in her body got replaced by normal flesh, including her brain. The memories are likely
there. But her brain works in a wholly different way now.
Will we see her again as Lily?
Well - that would be telling, now, wouldn't it? ^_^