The blob would be quite secure, sticking to Tourmaline's back like a large slug or suction cup. It's body wobbled happily, like an excited child, and brilliant stripes of pink and yellow flickered and popped on it's body, not that Tourmaline would be able to see that too well, with it's current position.

It would quietly absorb shed fur and dead skin cells, which wouldn't really FEEL like anything. But it was gathering important nutrition. And Information. It was learning how to make fur.

What would it do with fur? Who knows. But it was important in another regard- it could Learn by Consuming.

And it knew Tourmaline was a friend. It didn't want to hurt or consume her. But it wondered how much it could learn. If it found someone who Wasn't a friend.

It would think about this for the entire ride on Tourmaline's back, and even after it dismounted.

It was hungry. In all senses of the word.
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Seems her impromptu passenger has themself secure. She starts walking, heading down the tunnel. "Glad I could help someway," she tells it, trying her best to glance back.

You know, the tunnel is a little less empty when you're with company.

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