"One of them could be standing on the other side in the dark, staring back at me. So close. If I stare long enough, maybe I’ll catch the shine of a computer screen, I’ll see part of their face or some of the room. I could thrust my fist into the mirror and grab them by the neck, pull them through the jagged hole and kill them with my bare hands.
Then I’d have proof—a parasite successfully extracted, crumpled and dead on the floor. The others would stand framed in broken glass, horrified, then flee to burrow somewhere else. I’d turn the dead one over to the authorities. Those two cops. They’d see. They’d analyze the body to identify it. Maybe it would have no identity. A drone, animated and spoken through by something else, something bigger."
He's so unhinged now. I can't wait for this to be over for him.
"One of them could be standing on the other side in the dark, staring back at me. So close. If I stare long enough, maybe I’ll catch the shine of a computer screen, I’ll see part of their face or some of the room. I could thrust my fist into the mirror and grab them by the neck, pull them through the jagged hole and kill them with my bare hands.
Then I’d have proof—a parasite successfully extracted, crumpled and dead on the floor. The others would stand framed in broken glass, horrified, then flee to burrow somewhere else. I’d turn the dead one over to the authorities. Those two cops. They’d see. They’d analyze the body to identify it. Maybe it would have no identity. A drone, animated and spoken through by something else, something bigger."
He's so unhinged now. I can't wait for this to be over for him.
Chilling.
That means a lot coming from you, thank you!
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