host 1 (hōst) n. 1. One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity. 2. A person who manages an inn or hotel. 3. One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event Biology a. An organism on which or in which another organism lives. b. A cell that has been infected by a virus or other infective agent. Computers a. A computer or other device providing data or services that a remote computer can access by means of a network or modem. b. A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network, such as the Internet. The Parasite
The thing about Parasites—they suck the life out of the organism they attach to. Does this make them inherently bad? Or evil? One has yet to fully conjecture towards an understanding. I do not know. But let’s say there are giant, soul parasites. Some that we have not even discovered yet? Things that would make ticks and leaches look like things of fairy tales. What’s blood when your very mind and heart and soul can be sucked out of you? Your own memory? Your own source of life beyond this one? It’s horrible, and these life suckers could be your very parents. They could be the State. The Government. Children, maybe. But always it would be a life-sucking experience. How does one find out that the very organism that gave it life and nourished it, then turns and begins to suck the life out of that same nourished one? How would that be beneficial to the life-sucker? --To create a bond with the organism who is getting its life sucked out. This way that organism feels obliged and sorry and thankful in certain ways toward the parasite—has developed a loving attachment—so that the parasite doesn’t even just have to rely on cruel mechanisms to keep its prey in sight. It does not even have to spin a web. It does not even have to take a limb and pin its prey down. It simply has to love it for a certain amount of time, provide that one essential thing that it is eventually going to take away (kind of how we plump pigs for slaughter), and then—BOOM—turn on its little loved one, and start sucking the life out of it. It gets more in return than it put in, and it begins to get greedy. It feeds and feeds and the past-loved one doesn’t know what to do. It keeps imagining that this turned-foe will someday return to its original self (a mechanism purely put into place by the parasite to ensure loyalty and a longer source of provided energy). But eventually, the victim will either realize, or perish. It will have a choice when it is almost drained to nothing (and this is a point that its parasite fears and dreads of, for how does one prepare for the drained victim to choose death over life? Can you prepare for that? When all that was given has been taken away by the giver, will there be anything left? If so, the parasite will gain the ultimate feast—but what would/will be in it for the poor little victim? Anything? Perhaps there is an energy that can’t be sucked, perhaps the parasite could never win because the host could never drain, and therefore there is no ultimate source of power. What’s the point of drinking til burst? Would a tick explode itself with blood, gorge until its very own body bursts---or would it have a stopping point? A relaxation point? Until at least it burns some of that new energy and needs to suckle more? These are all dark thoughts of the host. host 2 (hōst) n. 1. An army. 2. A great number; a multitude. host 3 also Host (hōst) n. Ecclesiastical The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.
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