Chapter 9 - The Change Part 1

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A cold wind blows, and that strong mist swallows all that enters upon it...

Squinted eyes and warm breathing masked... 

Nothing can be seen nor discerned...

It's as if that very mist makes an entire existence... well... be wistfully vanished out of existence...

A deadly silence fills the air... A strong white unclear veil shrouds all vision...

A figure dripping... tries to get out... walking slowly, hand in hole, mind in the out

He ponders...

"I remember there's this telephone in freeways... an emer- emergency..."

His thought is cut off as he bumps into something...

His mind rushing, his blood running

Squinted eyes fail him...

It's...

It's...

It's just some car...

But it looks wrong...

Like something not of this world...

The car...

The car...

Has a giant lollipop sticking out of it...

"Huh?"

He looks all over the area, the mist still as strong as ever

He keeps bumping into more cars, motorcycles and vehicles

All of them...

Have some sort of candy sticking out, where once was just a normal part of the vehicle...

There's all sorts of candy replacing that very part...

"This just... seems random... w-what?"

The man shakes his head, trying to shift focus on his main objective...

"Now where is tha-"

"U- u-hh" 

The emergency telephone booth stands in the middle, sticking out

"It... looks normal enough but..."

"What exactly is happening right now?"

He moves closer, slowly... alert as he can be... as handicapped he is...

He has no memory of what transpired here, maybe he really is somewhere else...

In the middle of nowhere?

He enters the phone booth, his footsteps careful and silent-

The phone suddenly rings, breaking the silence-

The man stands in shock

He just stands there, paralyzed

His hands tremble, and upon grasping the telephone-

The line is empty, it just rings out

The call has ended?

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

The man screams, his body contorting into something

The telephone drops and hangs by

The man's body bursting at the seams-

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