Absolutely agree!!! Very hot story! Was this written as a chapter of a bigger story you have planned? Just curious cuz it said "Series" under a bigger umbrella title.

When will we get to see the “warm kind and welcoming” side of Dusk again Especially I anticipate them making out with latex tongue and latex tight grips

This was interesting. Not my cup of tea, but interesting.

Such a sensitive touching story!!!

Amazing story! Super hot and very well written!

Another excellent story.

Love it~!

That story is so awesome, I wish that would happen to me ,

i just remembered one of @copsboy's old theories on what the symbiotes are, and to basically open up an open ended discussion: **What more can we infer from the symbiotes, now that 013 is accessible?** One of my theories that I've been thinking is of their saturation within their hosts. We can see from Chapter 3, 4, 5, and 6 that Jamie's latex symbiote not only wraps around his body; it can also be detected as "particles" embedded within Jamie (see Dr. Ambrosius), as a swirl of latex inside his brain lobes, and has the ability to quickly wrap around and coat its host body. I think that, along with Master's prompt of an activation during the 3rd part of the Interlude, this gives some evidence that the symbiotes have physically fused, in every way shape and form, with its host. From the concept of a "soul", the symbiote now shares with, the consciousness has two perspectives, eventually converging into latex loyalty towards Master Myriad! :thinking: i think we can also see some evidence from how DS-008 acts. sure, "Horizon" acted unruly, but the symbiote somehow didnt chime in and follow Master's orders directly. now, i think this gives some credence to the thought that the dronified host fully combines with the symbiote, or the symbiote merely is too dumb to question its host's orders to be fair. . .the two ideas that were just aforementioned . . .yeah they have problems. for one, we know that scene in Chapter 1 where somehow Ambrosius *was* able to separate a suit (symbiote most likely) from the worker drone, so i'm not sure how the body merging aspect works for different types of drones. second of all, even though Jamie's superdrone symbiote is the smartest, i honestly think that most superdrones are _already pretty sentient/conscious_ in order to execute Master's plans. Overall, there's a lot of ideas, and I'm glad that there's so much lore that's embedded so that the story feels extremely immersive! Kudos to Neon, and thank you for writing this chapter! (P.S. :sob: this hasnt even been touching on the theme/motif?? of "Balance" which i was mentioning about earlier; Dusk and Daybreaker, Light vs Dark, freedom vs dronification, ok this comment is already too long maybe later)

The complexity of the coin/pet relationship is one of my favorite things about this series, aside from the truly exemplary writing and imagination displayed. It's such a caring relationship while also being so deeply strong in power dynamics. And Aristotle's subtle manipulation of Jasper, while problematic in the real world, makes for such good story.