Cont: This is not like possessing anyone else, my arms and hands respond instantly, it's like being on a bicycle again. Like slipping into an old pair of jeans, I have jeans on! I HAVE LEGS! I can run! "OW Fuck!" I yell, but it comes out all moans. I can fall too I guess. Wait! Falling hurt!
"What the hell is going on here?" I mumble and it sounds like "Mwa da heh sss oink onneeer" Oh that might get easier with practice! I make a mental note, and notice another difference, thoughts are easier to hang onto! My will isn't swayed by every gust of wind (literally), and I can more easily remember details from my living past. Like I remember the bush bunnies that had babies under the neighbors rose bushes.
My mind wanders along with my newly acquired old body. Instinct and thoughts guide me back to the house I grew up in. My thoughts coalesce as consciousness returns, I'm standing in front of the neighbors yard and I begin to walk haltingly towards the rose bushes.
Suddenly I am doubled over by hunger pangs, my stomach muscles clench painfully as a rabbit hops past my view. The hunger is incredibly powerful and my will is swallowed by an insatiable urge to fill my mouth with warm rabbit. I lurch towards the already timid creature, only to see it bolt away from me, under the crawlspace of the front porch. As the delicious looking fluff ball disappears from sight, the hunger in me subsides, and bubbles away.
Weeks pass as I teach myself how to ride a bicycle and not damage myself too much. I set a couple snares in the area and managed to catch fresh meat. The moaners tried to take it from me but once I pushed several of them away forcefully enough to damage them they leave me alone. They ignore me for the most part, but I slowly realize that I can extend my will beyond myself. I did this as a ghost when making people sleep walk but it was always from inside their head, this is different and as time passes this small ability slowly grows into being able to completely possess any walker within a 30' radius, be able to move them at will, make noises through them, and be able to see what they see. It seems this also makes me impossible to sneak up on, at least for the Zed's.
My eyes are slowly becoming brighter, clearing up and losing their milky quality. My hands have become much more responsive, and my arms have gotten stronger. I find that If I eat every day, I improve. If I miss several days I begin to regress, thoughts and motor control become much more difficult. There are more changes every day. I sleep now too, not every day but more and more often. I find myself looking for an old couch or mattress when I start getting sleepy, not just sleeping on the march like I did those first couple months. The most odd thing that has happened started in the middle of the night last night, I was dead asleep (lol dead) and I was woken by a very loud thump, just one. I sat bolt upright and my eyes peered through the darkness seeing into all the shadows, nothing. I managed to fall back asleep but it has slowly become increasingly regular, and well into the morning it took on an eery familiar rythm...
Thump-dub...
Thump-dub...
Thump-dub...