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63It was when she showered. that Elaine noticed them: tiny spots of dried blood on her lower abdomen. She looked again after she%u2019d washed the spots away and saw tiny puncture wounds across her stomach above her vagina. She dried herself and retuned to the bedroom. David was dressing and Elaine showed him the wounds whilst telling him in detail about what, up to now, she considered to be a dream.%u201cIt is difficult to believe,%u201d he said. %u201cWe%u2019ll get dressed and go to look in the cellar but a giant spider crawling up from it, coming up the stairs, and doing that to you... well... it%u2019s just so wild.%u201d%u201cWhy did it keep sticking something into me?%u201d Elaine asked.%u201cSpiders have many different ways of mating. The activity you say happened could be that the spider was injecting its sperm directly into your ovaries.%u201d%u201cI can%u2019t get pregnant, can I?%u201d she asked, alarmed.He shook his head. %u201cNo. Living things cannot cross-fertilise from one species to another.%u201d He kissed her. %u201cDon%u2019t be alarmed. And you said you took the pill, anyway.%u201dShe dressed, and the two of them went downstairs and had breakfast.Afterwards, David said, %u201cRight, lets get two torches and go down into the cellar.%u201d%u201cI don%u2019t want to go, David. Can we just seal it and I%u2019ll put a rug over it.%u201d She told him.Weeks passed, and Elaine felt increasingly unwell. She wondered at first if her sexual activities with David and putting worms into each other had somehow infected her. It was only when she started being SpiderChapter 4: The Impossible