"...having your own symbiote.
"Wait, wha-" was as much as Siobahn got out before she heard...something near the captain's legs. The dim light revealed just enough to show something small and dark squirming near her feet, immediately bringing to mind the creature from the telepathic vision that had saved Stone's life aboard the Artemis II.
Stone continued: "I've had to keep it very carefully hidden from the personnel watching me here, as it takes a long time and many resources for one capable of moving by itself to be produced.
Instinctively Siobahn took a step back as the thing began crawling towards her. This didn't go unnoticed by Stone: "What's wrong?" her telepathic voice asked. "It would not be seemly of me to speak about sharing this with all of humanity yet leave you, the first one to provide me help, out of it, correct?"