Crawler Adaptations + Shapechanging

Scion hadn't created his barrier yet, and so I found myself on a barren world with no life.

 

I shapechanged so that I looked like a section of earth, and then I started making changes in my body. I'd keep Mantellum's abilities, and I'd start pulling solar power much as the Entities themselves did. I no longer needed food or water or even air, and a few moments after that, I settled into a state of somnolence. It was going to be the longest nap in the history of mankind. Like anyone, I'd drift in and out of consciousness during that time, but it would seem like an endless dream that I could barely remember.

 

After an endless eternity, I was suddenly aware that the air around me was heating up. It took longer than I would have thought to come to full consciousness, and by then the sky was filled with trillions of shimmering lights. It was beautiful in its way, and I realized that if I hadn't had Crawler's adaptation, the fact that these things were setting the atmosphere on fire would have destroyed any life that was here.

 

Thirty minutes later, a planet's worth of parasite landed on another planet, and it was all I could do to keep from being destroyed by the impact.

 

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Impact