The writhing lump beneath Koma's skin suddenly stopped its rapid ascent near her shoulder blade. A split second later, a sickly, incandescent green glow began to pulsate visibly through her veins, turning her pale flesh into an unnatural, glowing emerald hue.
"Now, that is the precise reaction you should be terrified of," Ethan remarked. "When a male Gravedigger Beetle reaches peak chemical excitation, it unloads the entirety of the concentrated corpse energy it has harvested throughout its centuries-of-life baseline. Evolutionary speaking, this energy is intended to forcefully impregnate the blood-red female and sustain the larvae. But inside a living human vessel, the reaction is entirely catastrophic."
Ethan didn't even look down as Koma's body violently seized. "There is need to explain what will happen to you next."
The transformation executed itself with a brutal velocity.
Shhhhk.
