Life could be so simply,

Sweet

And just a bit impure and deadly!

Until you felt their presence, making you their toys, their playthings. They would doctor you, love you, care for you and above all, treat you as someone without a mind or a soul of your own.

They were aliens with the power to deliver a baby and make it one of their own!

And the baby would rule the parent as the aliens would rule the universe.

They were the new neighbors - and they had come to stay!

And then there were the damnable plants - the weeds of their own destruction...