When the hum stops, the bug has already decided.
Three days post-exposure, you shed your skin in one perfect piece. Your new skin has the same cilia as the bug. You can feel radio waves now. You can hear the island’s magnetic field. MushijimaArachinidBug
They told us Mushijima was just another island on the Pacific garbage patch—a knot of driftwood, rusted fishing wire, and abandoned bunkers. They lied. When the hum stops, the bug has already decided
It likes the chase.
MushijimaArachinidBug (specimen α-7) Codename: "The Shifting Husk" Status: Unconfirmed / Cognitohazard Adjacent When the hum stops