Evolution

It felt like falling: the thrill of fear, the sudden white-blindness, and then the return to awareness moments later with sound and feeling coming long after vision. The rush of bile up his throat that eclipsed all other sensation was alien but not uncomfortable. Before the taste of acid hit he knew he could bury himself in his new obsession; smelly, awkward misfit though she was. With her, he felt hollow-boned, like he could fly away from the grasping claws of those swimming bodies below him.

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