When I woke up, I was in a small space. I didn't know what it was. I didn't even know how I got there. But that wasn't what worried me. I could suddenly see more than I could before. I saw not just what was in front of me, but also what was above me, below me, even what I saw in the corners of my eyes was suddenly as clear as they would be if I saw it in front of me. Did I suddenly grow extra eyes? The confusion got me to raise both of my hands to my head, and... if I was only confused before, I started to panic then. My right hand was still what it always has been, but my left wasn't a hand anymore. It was a claw. A black hairy claw. Though hairy wasn't the right word either. The hairs on the claw looked more like pins. What happened to me? Someone was moving on my right. I knew because the door was made of glass. I didn't even need to turn my head to see who was coming toward me. It was a blond woman in a blue dress. I don't know why, but for some reason I knew I was supposed to know her. I heard a sort of wind as the door opened itself, and the woman stretched out her hand, reaching for me.
"You are a beautiful specimen." she said, "Go on, take my hand, I won't bite you."
Part of me wanted to do as she said, but the other part of me knew I could not trust her.
"All right, then don't." she said, "My name is Shelly Godfrey. Can you tell me yours?"
Could I? I didn't know. Did I have a name? I got so confused, I wanted to rub my forehead with both of my hands. But as my hands reach the place where my forehead should be, I could still see them, as if I had eyes on my forehead as well.
"I can only imagine what this transition must be like." she said, after which she took a step aside, "Go on, you're free to go."
I didn't know what she was talking about, but I didn't want to be inside this thing anymore, whatever it was.
I got out, and looked at what I just left. It was something egg-shaped, black, and had a lot of electronic wires attached to it. Only a little distance away stood another one quite like it. I knew these things, I had seen them before. But why? What are they? Why couldn't I remember? And why was I inside one of them? Before an answer could come to me, I heard two pairs of footsteps. One sounded normal, while the other sounded like a heavy-weight. I made only a half-turn, and saw one of these people that was approaching us. He looked like a man in a white coat, but his head... I couldn't believe what I was seeing. His head was large and black. The same kind of black, and dare I say the same kind of skin that my claw had. He had green eyes that were so large, they each covered one half of each face. And where his mouth should be, there was what looked like a straw made of flesh. His head was that of a fly. I dared not look at the other one, but I continued my turn because I just had to know. And what was there next to him didn't even have a human body. This one was seven to eight feet tall, had pincers for a mouth, had two extra arms, had a strange brownish color... it was too grotesque for words. I would say I was looking at a eight-foot tall insect. As soon as I saw these two... things, I took a step back.
"Don't be afraid." one of them said, "We won't hurt you."
"A bit hypocrite of you to react that way." the woman said, while opening her purse.
"Don't worry, you'll grow used to it." the lab-coat... thing said, "And when you do, you'll want nothing else."
What was he talking about? As soon as that question came to mind, the woman had raised a mirror from her purse. In its reflection, I saw another one of these fly-heads stand behind me. I turned to look... only to see that the thing reflected in the mirror did the same thing. I looked at it directly, and it looked back. I raised my claw, and it did so too. I used my human hand to grab hold of the claw, and it did the same thing. I wasn't looking at some thing else that was standing beside me, I was looking at myself. My body shook, my claw clattered, my straw-mouth retracted, all while that woman laughed.
I asked myself what was going on, because one moment I was tossed inside this huge empty space, where there was some kind of monster inside, and next thing I knew, everything looked different. I couldn't see what's going on around me, only see what's happening in front of me. Maybe my eyes were dirty, I thought, so I tried cleaning them. That didn't work either. But even if it did, I made a strange discovery then. My left leg was gone. In its stead, there was something that looked like what that monster had for a leg. It looked so pale, and so eerie, what with those five tentacles coming out at its end.
"Psst. Hey buddy?"
Something created these strange sounds, and yet they somehow sounded familiar. Why? I didn't know. I turned around and looked. Buzzing in front of me, there was someone else. He seemed to have the same problem as I do, as he too had that strange leg. Not only that, his head wasn't the right shape either. It was just round, with two holes that I guessed were supposed to be eyes, but they could only see what happened in front of him, not around him. Like me, I realized. Did I somehow have the same kind of head?
"I know this must be confusing for you." it said, "It was to me too. But I have no choice. As long as the other me stops doing what he does, there won't be much I can do from here."
The other me? What did he mean by that?
"My name is Andre. What is yours?"
Name? Am I supposed to have that? What is a name anyway? Slowly, it began to dawn on me, that I indeed had a name. But it was just a letter. Then I wondered what a letter was. Why did I suddenly know things that I shouldn't?
"I see, the fly is in control, not the human."
The fly? The human? He kept talking in terms I didn't understand, and yet for some reason sounded familiar.
"Don't worry." he said, "Now that you're here, we can help each other. If all goes right, you'll have your body back to normal."
Good, I thought to myself. Maybe he'll even explain to my what is going on. Or what he is. Or what I have become. He flew away, and I followed him.