Chapter 69:

LXIX | Something To Remind You

Something's Not Right


I stare at him,
head spinning.

No,

the room

is really spinning.

The flat carpet
is warped,

bent into mountainous waves,

lifting

all the
armchairs

into the air

so they float around

like driftwood.

Urei
is still seated

in one of them,

oblivious
to his own contorting face,

the taut line of his mouth

curling up
in a strange grin,

eyeballs

sliding off

his face,

staring at me
like I'm the one doing this.

I'm not.

I'm not!

No. Never.

Asher's face
is glowing,

his eyes
focused on something behind me.

He's not smiling—

almost like
he's holding back laughter.

The only one

not shaken
by what's
messing up our reality.

Even the easel I was painting on,
Tammie's abstract face,

doesn't look right anymore.

Her eyes are too distinct,

too dark,
too close.

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