[The House seems pretty reasonable and painfully innocent, so maybe there's still a way out of this without losing the ally keeping her alive. Edriss locks herself into one of the wrist cuffs delicately, not looking at the android that sates Eva's brain's craving for eye contact.]
Run a brain scan on this body while I'm feeding.
[It will show a fully functional, fully-sentient human brain. Unconscious, sleeping, unable to be woken up, but in normal REM sleep. Eva's skull may even show evidence of recent trauma and the presence of alien chemicals in the passage from ear to cranial cavity- traces of the numbing chemical Edriss' yeerk body secretes to numb the pain of having to brute-force her way through that part of the head.
Edriss bends over, clamps the neck cuff on, cuffs her remaining wrist, and exits Eva. The Pool is welcome, sating the hunger and vague tiredness already starting to seep into her bones. She swims and feeds and luxuriates for a good half hour before finding Eva's ear, still just touching the surface of the Pool, and re-enters.]
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Run a brain scan on this body while I'm feeding.
[It will show a fully functional, fully-sentient human brain. Unconscious, sleeping, unable to be woken up, but in normal REM sleep. Eva's skull may even show evidence of recent trauma and the presence of alien chemicals in the passage from ear to cranial cavity- traces of the numbing chemical Edriss' yeerk body secretes to numb the pain of having to brute-force her way through that part of the head.
Edriss bends over, clamps the neck cuff on, cuffs her remaining wrist, and exits Eva. The Pool is welcome, sating the hunger and vague tiredness already starting to seep into her bones. She swims and feeds and luxuriates for a good half hour before finding Eva's ear, still just touching the surface of the Pool, and re-enters.]