Mrs. Mosquito - Mozzie for friends ( but who wants to be friends with a mosquito* ) - felt a little anaemic.
She hadn't sucked any blood, for a couple of days now, and was really starting to feel the effects. Dizzy spells, trembling legs and very low energy. She could hardly stick to a wall and ceilings had become impossible. Gravity had become stronger than her. Where she was usually draining others, she now felt 'drained' herself.
It was fair to say that if she waited much longer, it would endanger her life.
Mrs. M. was trying to work through a serious dillema, though, which was even tougher, now her brain - that was already invisble to the human eye and to that of most animals - was struggling, due to her being undernourished.
"To Suck or Not To Suck?"
that was the question.
I know what you are thinking and no, that's not what I meant, although I admit that a dirty mind is a joy forever.
*It wasn't easy to be a mosquito. She hadn't chosen to be a parasite.
It was just what she had to do - and her mother before her, and her grandmother before her mother, and so on and so forth - in order to survive.
What saddened her the most, though, was not being able to befriend any other animal, aside from fellow mozzies.
And even among mozzies, there was a lot of competition. Many of them couldn't help sucking up to others and could be bloody annoying.
TO BE CONVINUED...
P.S. I must say that it felt satisfying, to write a short post with a long title ;<)
P.P.S. The painting/ picture that illustrates this post has nothing to do with the story, but I created it today, during a group painting session with @clareartista @theastone @ninasophia and a guest who joined in but didn't paint, and I felt that this painting could very well describe the emotions going through the tiny head of Mrs. Mosquito, if she were to be creative and actually thought in colors ;<)
P.P.S. For your entertainment ( and because I like to look at it ), I added an older sketchie of Hypersensitivosaurus, attempting - without much success - to fight off Mrs. M., who also wasn't very successful, here, in her attempt to suck. In fact, some days she just sucked at it.
Previous Mrs. Mosquito ( and Hypersensitivosaurus ) stories,
from latest to eldest:
Catching up on some much needed Sleep - Tired of Mrs. Mosquito
More Mrs. Mosquito
Mrs. Mosquito
Dinosaur D Day
A Raptor's Reverie
And last but definitely not least:
Mrs Mosquito - Another Hypersensitivosaurus Story