: Miss Vale is grading papers late at night when an invasive creature enters her classroom. The parasite enters her body, leading to a transformation inside a human-sized cocoon in the school restroom.
The puck is now a distorted sphere, stretched tight like a ripe fruit ready to burst, or a tick gorged on blood. It retains the name "puck," but it has lost the function. It can no longer slide. It can no longer impact. It can only sit, heavy and organic, a prisoner to the life it carries. The "little" in the name becomes ironic; the object is now bloated. little puck parasited full