Preview of Unsatisfying Specimen
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Summary: Charr Doctor Kay is waylaid by a mysterious, manufactured blob. Automated to identify and capture suitable specimens from the field. Unfortunately the doctor fits its analysis.Word Count (Full Version): 2092
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Frozen for just a moment, Kay realised whatever this thing was it had noticed him, quite possibly because he'd stepped on its trail. It drifted towards him, had he been on solid ground he might even have been able to outrun it yet it was closing the distance with his sticking steps. Worse still, the creepy thing was silent except when it occasionally quivered and gurgled!
"Back away you weird monster! I'll call the guards and they'll be far less kind than I!" He warned it, he just had to find the edge of this slick sticky trail!
The trees, they'd help, if he made it back to them maybe the blobby thing would be dissuaded if not totally impeded.
Unsurprisingly it said nothing, creeping ever closer to him. The awkward pursuit continued, the slow but determined paces of Kay couldn't outpace it.
Several steps between him and the trees were all that was left when he felt it snare his ankle. A soft but stretchy grasp that flowed around, sliding up the leg and fully coating his raised foot. "Ah!" He cried as it rose upward, pulling him, fouling his balance and sending him with a heavy thud to the floor. "Someone? Help!" He tried to call. The blob pulled his leg up and back into itself while also trying to tug the other one. It was stuck strongly enough to the floor at the knee and toe that he would have struggled to lift it. It seemed the blob used that instead to pull itself closer, drenching over the top of him.
When his knee had been fully enveloped the yanking tug broke the grip the floor placed on it, from a distance one could only see the fallen doctor's form reaching to an escape as the worrisome mass pulled him gradually up. His tail and hips vanished into the smooth monotone goop, next, with another firm and strong yank he was snapped out of the ground and inside. Afforded one last swirling look of the trees before the gooey drips pressed over his mask and actively seemed to shove him inside!
The blob quivered and shook where it held him, compressing down and shrinking in the process. Kay felt the forces growing harder and heavier, bending his body to curl up, he was on his back now, trying to kick and punch for freedom.
The surface of the blob undulated, gently rounded dents forming in the wake of the doctor's attempts.