[Frowns but rubs her back a little. Close calls, oof.]

Thank you, Sheba. I do think it's possible that it may be...some sort of feedback? Like maybe it takes a reflection of the people under its thrall. Everyone's mentioning things about a hivemind, so it could be that either a lot of its parts are individual creatures that all feel that same hunger, or it adopts the parts of us that feel those things.

[She thinks a moment.]

It could explain a bit about the rage — for me it wasn't just the anger, but I was really paranoid and felt terribly about myself all weak. Maybe that was a sort of tuning into its anxiety?