Cramped, the first thought that came to me is Damn this is a tight fit. I was curled up inside of something wiggling and trying to moves is not getting me anywhere.
It feels like im buried in rock, it's heavy and rough on my skin and back. I wiggle more feeling my body, running down my list, Arms check, legs check, head and face check, tail check. Well everything seems in order.
Wait .... wait wait, Tail i have a tail now. Silence for What feels like an eternity as I try to wiggle and move my tail. Well i guess that's new? Thinking back to my last life, Yep no tail then and now i have one. Looks like I'm not human anymore, Sigh, great what did i become.
As i wiggles more i feel my body slowly get tired and hungry, Then i feel it, My instincts kick in. I go to town chewing and biting what im in, swallowing mouthfuls of this stuff. It's sweet and tangy almost like an orange, i chew and swallow as if I've starved for years.
I rip into the sweet flesh of the thing im in and swallow, with each bite i feel my body get stronger and rougher, skin tightening on my skeleton, muscles tense like the string of a bow. Finally i see some light as i eat my way out, slowly the hole gets big enough i squeeze out and falls. It takes a second for my vision to adjust seeing what I fell out of it looks almost like an egg but way too big and I mean way too big it's almost the size of an elephant.
Wait, i never turned around so how can i see what's behind me, i try to look around and i feel it, my face, back and shoulders wiggle ass my many eyes move. I don't feel scared or freaked out, nor do i feel disgust rather i feel good being able to see so much. I chuckle to myself nothing can sneak up on me now, moving my body out of a primal need i move to the egg and eat more till it's gone.
I don't feel full or hungry just content with the food I've eaten, moving slow i feel my body for the first time. My legs are bent weird like, similar to a humans but my feet have a bend in them as well letting me get close to the ground while only bending my knees a little, first half of my feet flat on the ground, legs tense like a predator getting ready to launch itself at pray.
My arms are normal but huge, massive tree trunk like limbs. Opening my hand i feel my fingers ... No not fingers claws long slender claws, longer than a foot and it's not five of them but seven. The finger that should be a thumb is small and in the palm of my hand I can feel the strength of it as I move it and wiggle it feels strong enough to bend a beem of metal.
My eyes trace my body and i notice for the first time it's bare and looks like the skin of a mole rat pulled tight, Down the sent are spines of bone growing my my skin but not my skin, more like out of it from my spine. My tail is long and hairless, its longer than my arm, maybe four feet worth of tail and at the end a blade of bone curved like a talon upward toward my back.
Blinking my fifty or so eyes i move forward into the tunnel, smell drifting to me, blood and meat is the first then a scent of nectar and water. I don't feel fear I don't really feel anything other than a hunger as I move through the town I come across bits and parts of what I can only assume to be deer or wolves maybe, all I know is it's creatures of a forest from the smell that comes off their skin and fur.
I open my mouth when im close to the wolves body, Swallowing it whole, it was only half a body and it was bigger than four feet but i still just swallow it. I realize my mouth is like a leeches, wide and circular with teeth made of jagged bone that curls into my mouth. Long tongue flicks out onto the ground opening up and drinking the pool of blood.
My hunger fade as i eat the deer next, slowly moving deeper into the tunnel till i reach the opening and look out upon wide area. Grass as far as my eyes can see, hills and trees everywhere, a stream coming through the middle from a waterfall. It's a giant valley low light coming from the ceiling. It takes me a second before I realize I'm in a cave that has its own ecosystem, the air isn't stale or anything because of the trees, It's fresh and the scent of animals drifts to me.
I feel it before anything else, through the ground a small tremble, then i hear it small clicking sounds from hundreds of feet hitting the earth. Finally i see it behind me and on the ceiling, a big ass centipede twice the length of a bus and just as thick as a dog.
My tail retracts and then snaps out hitting it in the head lodging deep in before pulling out. Green blood drips out as it falls to the ground. I turn around and go to take a bite but my body freezes, nerves fire and in a second i raise my claws and grab hold of the things tail as it whips up trying to stab my head.
Venom drips from the tip of the stinger, my claws cut threw it's thick carapace severing it's tail. It wiggles and squirms under me it's mouth reaching out and biting into my leg. The poisonous claw like mouth parts dig into my skin as it goes to work with it's mandibles go to work tearing and ripping my flesh. A dark black blood leaking from my leg, rage building in me from what it's doing.
I open my claws and straighten them before plunging it into the things head and tearing it's brain out as the body goes limp. I swallow the brain before removing it from my leg seeing the chunk it's taken out of me. Blood pooling on the ground, mixing with the creatures blood. I lean down and tear it apart before consuming it in large pieces. A sting is felt in my leg as the blood stops and skin wiggles together like worms of flesh mending the hole, i can feel the poison in my body move slowly through my leg.
After eating my wound is closed all the way and i head down the hill from my tunnel, walking on my feet and knuckles like an ape. I make it down to a stream dipping my head in and drinking slowly. I sigh from the refreshing taste of the cold water, It's not better than the blood but it reminds me of my last life.