And suddenly she was being covered.  This wasn't the plan.

Edith found herself suddenly panged with a bit of panic as she felt herself drift a little bit away as she felt formlessness, numbness.  She felt, nothing, nothing but to eat and grow, curiosity but as if that of a child.  It was merging with her own, and she screamed back to keep it away, to keep such feeling and thoughts away from her.  She began to fight back, channeling the stoic straight faced guardianship of something far away, but closer, something boring and unmotivated save their own strength.  She used that, latching onto its memories to destroy.

Then it released her.

The reaction was enough even to make Edith yipe and shake a little bit.  The big slime acted as a conduit and it seemed to scream at the sudden intrusion of something more 'complex'.  Thats the only thing she could figure out.  It was detecting that they were different than she was, maybe because of the intelligence, the emotions, the memories.  

It made Edith realize a single thing.  The Slime tried to eat her, and she wasn't hit with a moment of mortality.  No, she was angry.  Angry that something so vile and mindless would even dare try.  In a moment she knew that she was better than that stupid thing and lashed out.

[color=pink]"You... YOU BITCH!"[/color]  She shouted, almost scaling the wall herself.  [color=pink]"TRY THAT AGAIN!  WE'LL SEE WHO EATS WHO!"[/color]