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REI Co-op Studios. Change is unavoidable. Change can be a good thing. It can be a good thing. You keep telling yourself that as you

stare into the bathroom mirror and you try to figure out what's changed. You reach up to touch your cheek and then you

look at your fingers. You stretch them out in front of you.

Longer and onier than you remember.

The joints seem rounder, swollen almost, but they don't hurt.

You run the pad of your thumb along the edge of a

fingernail that you'd swear is getting thicker and narrower every day. And then there's your eyes.

You stand there and you force yourself to stare into your own eyes in the mirror.

You've caught yourself avoiding your reflection lately because of that shine, that flash that you

catch in your eyes, like a hunger, like a desperation, the eyes of a caged animal crouching, waiting for a chance to break

out. They're flashing now, brighter and more savage than you've ever seen them. You try

smiling at yourself, but the sight of your bare teeth shocks you, send you, stepping quickly back from the mirror out of the line of reflection,

tripping on the tub and then grabbing the wall to catch yourself.

Your smile struck you like a vicious snarl.

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