>>6045735>>6045759>What are you...? etcYou are gazing hypnotically into the eye sockets of the Withered Hag, attempting to ascertain some deep truth or revelation, sifting through her memories and consciousness, piercing the depths of her secrets, her psyche, her innermost soul. Nothing happens, so you decide to go through her phone instead. Her fingerprint is rather wrinkly now, but mercifully the biometric recognition appears to still unlock.
There are some very strange images on her phone. She has a folder that is composed entirely of assorted close-up pictures of necks, some male, some female, some of which are a bit flabby or veined, obese and bulging, and not even very attractive. You are puzzled by these pornographic neck pictures, but you assume everyone feels a bit lonely sometimes, and inevitably needs to... seek relief, some release, somehow. The Old Hag cringes visibly at your discovery of her shameful neck picture collection - she has a facial expression which suggests she really wishes she could die, though unfortunately it is now difficult to discern any of her facial expressions at all, beneath her generally decrepit physiognomy and sagging countenance.
There is a curious picture of what appears to be some form of scientific experiment. Within some form of aquarium tank, some carcharhiniform sphyrnid has been released, and the photo appears to depict it excitedly circling and gnawing and biting at a series of disc-shaped dipoles, electric field emitters simulating prey.
The sharks possess electroreception, sensitivity to living electric currents coursing through water, detecting electrical impulses as a hunting signal... You think back to your own instincts - sensing the algorithmic playlist streaming recommendations of those around you, whilst this Hag also seemed to possess some more advanced ability to manipulate voice and text messages, to increase probabilities of a prey encounter. Perhaps this is the natural response of the predator when their sustenance increasingly resembles antennas embedded upon flesh, emitting and broadcasting the entire spectrum of their emotional fluctuations as shifting electromagnetic fields to all nearby, with no thought as to who could be watching, listening, waiting...
