[b]Kojiki Arcology, Evening[/b]

The ritual sent an incandescent beacon to those it was trying to call from the void, sending out a request for aid, through the Right of Sacred Union.  A being answered, sending but a fragment of its power to Earth as its representative on that plane, to bind with a worthwhile host.  When the creature arrived, it saw, instead of the expected potential host, it saw a room full of dead bodies.  All of the potential hosts had been murdered, it observed casually.  [i]"Of course they would all be dead... Now I need to find my own host."[/i] The disgruntled ta'ge symbiont muttered in its own language as it left the ritual chamber, flying on wings of magic.  From high in the sky, it started looking for a worthy subject, muttering a brief incantation that started leading it towards a warded apartment atop a peaceful bookstore.  Entirely ignoring the wards, it flew through one of the third-story windows, and into the bedroom of a young girl.  On arrival, the creature looked the girl, who hadn't noticed it yet, and sent her a telepathic message, echoing throughout her entire body, echoing in her mind and ringing through to the deepest parts of her body.

[b][i]"You are worthy."[/i][/b]

[hr][b]Books of Wonder 1st Floor, Evening[/b]

"Did we finish unpacking the shipment from your brother, dear?" Hideo Nakamura asked his wife, Sophia, from the front of the store as he worked on locking up the shop and closing out the cash registers.

"Mostly.  All that's left is the Society's order, and I think we should leave that as it is.  That way, the contents stay safer." Sophia replied from the back of the store, near what would be a rear entrance to the store.  As the husband and wife pair are talking, there is a sudden quiet as a strange, warbling alarm starts within their own heads.  They look at each other, intense worry in their eyes, as they meet in the back of the store by the stairs.  As one, the two adults made a dash for the stairs and ultimately Kiokos room, with Hideo gasping "Kioko! Her room is right next to that section of the ward!"

[hr][b]Kioko’s Room (Book of Wonders 3rd Floor), Evening[/b]

Kioko was sitting at her desk, blissfully unaware that her life was about to turn upside-down once again.  As she sat, listening to music, she heard a light thump through the music, and turned to see what made the sound.  As she turned, her eyes met the eyes of the strange creature, and everything winked out of existence as it stared back, and its words echoed through her mind.  Kioko felt excruciating pain as her entire being, body, mind and soul, were reshaped and modified to act as a proper host and vessel for this creature, to handle its power and the eldritch energies that accompanied it.  After an indeterminate amount of time, Kioko regained consciousness, and noticed four immediate differences from just prior to that... thing? appearing in her room:  she was lying on the floor; her parents were in her room, having just sprinted up two stories of stairs; she felt like she'd been trampled by a herd of elephants; and that her house was surrounded by some sort of magical ward.  [i]'Wait, how do I know that?'[/i] she thought, before the answer came from a voice in her own head, in the same voice as before, but without the resonance of the earlier message;  [i]'Because we are now one, and my powers and abilities are at your disposal.'[/i]

As Kioko sat up, she opened her eyes, glowing gold and compounding like the eyes of an insect.  Her parents, who helped her up from the floor, stopped suddenly, and stared at her eyes. 

"Kioko... Honey, are you alright?  Your eyes..." Her mother said, taken aback by the revelation that something had happened to her daughter, as her father stared, speechless, looking between the window where the ward had been disturbed and his daughters eyes, clear evidence of something happening.