Assimilation - Lost Colony, #2.1

They offered help. They helped themselves. Time to Read: about 1 hour and 15 minutes When a boy at school is converted into a VIM, a human consciousness merged with that of an interstellar refugee, Jennifer Baynes wants to make him feel welcome. She soon finds that the VIM's objectives aren't what they seem. Lost Colony is a quarterly magazine of masterfully crafted mid-length (10, 000 to 25, 000 words) science fiction and fantasy in all of their varieties.
This ebook edition includes an Editor's Note in which the editor explains why this story was chosen for publication.