Wednesday WiP! Infinite Archive Ch. 1

I promised you more regular mailings, didn't I? I recently got the final draft of Infinite Archive approved, so I wanted to send y’all a taste. Please note it hasn't been through copyeditors yet, so there may be errors.

This is not for public posting, please.

Chapter One

0.18 Percent Is Still A Lot of Murder

The worst thing about being part of an alien hive mind was you had to act like thousands of insect feet crawling over your body, including your face, neck, ears, and possibly trying to burrow into your collar, was just fine.

The best part about being part of an alien hive mind? The jury was still out on that one.

Mallory sat motionless on her bed, eyes closed, reminding herself this was Just Fine. Even among the buzz of thousands of wings. Even with antennae probing and investigating every hormone she secreted. Even with a deadly allergy to Earth-dwelling insects of the Vespidae family.

She breathed slowly. Don’t think about that allergy thing.