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Have you ever felt like you could conquer the world?
Achieve all your dreams?
Like you live in a pool of sunlight that never fades and never grows cold?
Like you could live forever?
I feel like that every day.
It's not a common feeling, I know. It's hard to get to for some people.
I've never had that problem.
It's hard to have problems when the world passes you by in an endless, colourless blur that somehow has shape and meaning while it speeds by too fast for the eye to
capture. I have been supersonic my whole life.
I am speed.
Speed is what makes me who I am. Makes me confident and bold. Tell you the truth, maybe I wouldn't be like this if I weren't fast. Maybe I'd be just like you.
Not saying there's anything wrong with you…but I'd rather be me.
As would a disturbing amount of people…
All this running makes a guy hungry. I stop at my place for a bite to eat. No, I'm not having chili dogs. Once I found out what was in hotdogs I stopped eating
them. I stopped eating meat altogether. It's kind of creepy knowing what that stuff is made out of. I'm sort of related to pigs, in a way (because I'm not a wild
hedgehog I'm a step up in the gene pool), and that's kinda scary knowing that I could've been bologna if things had gone wrong.
So yeah, I don't eat meat anymore. 'cept eggs, those I'm okay with. And I am in fact making myself an egg salad sandwich. With barbecue sauce.
If ya haven't tried it, don't knock it.
No, seriously. It's good.
I make myself another sandwich and wander outside. I don't like staying in the house for too long. Makes me feel closed in. It's nice out. Sunny and warm, but not
too warm, if you know what I mean.
I'm eating my sandwich, trying not to drop egg salad on my sneakers, when all of a sudden the temperature drops.
Like it goes arctic style.
The sun goes out.
I drop my sandwich.
I don't know where it went.
There doesn't seem to be ground anymore. I don't think there is. There's a funny feeling in my head like when I go on the Gravitron. Like I'm weightless.
God it's cold. The hedgehog does not like the cold.
It's getting colder.
What happened?
And where's my sandwich? I'm still indecently hungry.
"I've finally found you."
