¤%††-,.... ....,-††%¤
%††-,..... .....,-††%
††-,...... ......,-††
†-,....... .......,-†
††-,...... ......,-††
%††-,..... THEY TELL ME: "WE ARE GOING TO SHRINK .....,-††%
¤%††-,.... YOU." I DON'T QUITE LIKE THE TONE IN ....,-††%¤
#¤%††-,... THEIR VOICES, LIKE THEY ARE RESTRAINING ...,-††%¤#
##¤%††-,.. THEMSELVES. THERE IS A HUNGER IN THEM ..,-††%¤##
###¤%††-,. AND IT WANTS ME TO SHRINK. AND WHAT .,-††%¤###
##¤%††-,.. REALLY IRKS ME IS THAT SO DO I. ..,-††%¤##
#¤%††-,... ...,-††%¤#
¤%††-,.... THEY GIVE ME WRISTBANDS AND ANKLETS, ....,-††%¤
%††-,..... MADE OF SOME STRANGE STONE. THEIR .....,-††%
††-,...... SURFACE IS SWIRLING, LIKE DARK ......,-††
†-,....... THUNDERSTORMS TRAPPED IN GLASS, LIKE .......,-†
††-,...... WINDOWS INTO A SMALLER WORLD, CLOSE TO ......,-††
%††-,..... MY BODY SO THAT IT CAN SEE CLEARLY .....,-††%
¤%††-,.... WHATS IN STORE. ....,-††%¤
#¤%††-,... ...,-††%¤#
##¤%††-,.. THEY GIVE ME FOOD: PRAWN-LIKE BUGS THAT ..,-††%¤##
###¤%††-,. MAKE MY TONGUE CURL WITH SATISFACTION. .,-††%¤###
##¤%††-,.. "OUT OF THIS WORLD", I THINK, HAVING NO ..,-††%¤##
#¤%††-,... FRAME OF REFERENCE. I EAT ONLY TWO, BUT ...,-††%¤#
¤%††-,.... THE BUGS LEAVE ME SUSPICIOUSLY ....,-††%¤
%††-,..... SATISFIED. .....,-††%
††-,...... ......,-††
†-,....... THEY MEASURE MY CLOTHES. "YOU ARE GOING .......,-†
††-,...... TO BECOME ABOUT HALF AS BIG", THEY TELL ......,-††
%††-,..... ME, BARELY CONTROLLING THEMSELVES WITH .....,-††%
¤%††-,.... ANTICIPATION. ....,-††%¤
#¤%††-,... ...,-††%¤#
##¤%††-,.. † ..,-††%¤##
###¤%††-,. --- .,-††%¤###
##¤%††-,.. ,,,,, ..,-††%¤##
#¤%††-,... ........ ...,-††%¤#
¤%††-,.... ,,,,, ....,-††%¤
%††-,..... --- .....,-††%
††-,...... † ......,-††
†-,....... .......,-†
††-,...... ......,-††
%††-,..... .....,-††%
¤%††-,.... ....,-††%¤
#¤%††-,... ...,-††%¤#