by Will Stanton » Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:37 pm
"It's...
I could feel everything. It started in the plane, where I could feel every single connection between me and the seat underneath -- every, like, cell. Hundreds and hundreds of times more sensitive than...than anything. And it only got more from there. I could feel people through the glass. I could...I could smell their hair color, and feel their words, and touch their perfume. It was incredible, and it was overwhelming, and it was everything. Bobbing along in the ocean, it was like....like I, and the ocean, and the sea breeze and the sun shining down, we were all the same thing. All of us, together; no difference between me and the world around me.
It was almost too much -- and to try to deal with it, I fell apart, and that only made the sensations more potent. And diffused throughout everything. I could feel when Tosh took one card back to the lab. I felt everything in the sample bag, but I could feel outside of that, in his pocket, in the air around him; the sensations of the analyzer in the lab, the little zap of electricity. And I could have ignored it -- I could have stood up to it, but I didn't want too; it felt too good, so I went along with it. And at the same time, I was back here in Scotland, and getting bigger, and there were more and more of me. I could feel the doctor's consternation and annoyance; I could feel Char trembling in the basement. It was...
If there's a heaven, Robbie..."