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should be aware of solid
mechanics.” Patting my hair in an absentminded fashion he
continued, “As I am sure you know synergy   is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple
sum of its parts….well they have noted that when I shift I do so in
a way to minimizes the loss of potential energy and I radiate heat
from all over. This is why they keep me here. There is a fear that
at some point I will continue morphing until there is nothing left.
I shall deform into some unknown creature and we just don’t know
the full impact.”
    “What about option B?”
    “You are the only option so
far.”
    I huffed out a wordless sound of
disgust and he sighed in what I believed was empathy."I can only
tell you the truth as I know it,” he continued. Not that I think
knowing what little facts there are will do for much good you, nor
will it change anything for either of us. There’s nothing for it
but to carry on.”
     
    He stroked fingers that radiated heat
down across my forehead brushing my eyebrows. “I need for you to
try and enjoy this as much as you can.”
    I barked out a stunned laugh and in
fury shot back, “Oh really? Well fuck you!”
    He loomed over me and pressed his face
close to mine. I watched in sheer pants pissing terror as the
humanity leached from his face. His eyes shifting, melting, the
deep brown in the iris in flux as if inside he was nothing more
than a puddle of molten colors trying to coalesce into something
firm.
    “Do you see?”
    I squished my eyes tight and shook my
head back and forth. I refused to open my eyes to whatever the hell
was going on with him.
    A drop of something wet and warm hit my
cheek with a soft splat. My eyes flew open and he was staring down
into my face with an expression I could not read. Yet there it
was….another tear welled up and with agonizing slowness grew then
bubbled along his lashes before breaking free to hit my
forehead.
    “Believe me,” he whispered in a low
tone that had me straining my ears to hear him. He flicked his eyes
to the left then back to me. Seeing the blank look on my face he
jerked his eyes again and raised his eyebrows willing me to get a
clue. I slowly closed my eyes then opened them giving him a flat
stare and the briefest of a nod.
    “Understand if you don’t play along
they will kill you. I won’t but they will.”His words made my heart
skip and stutter in my chest like a moth trying to break free of a
child’s hands.
    “I know you have no reason to trust me
but you must. Your life depends on it.” His mouth formed the words
and only holding my breath allowed me to hear him for he had
lowered his voice yet again as if in desperation to keep his words
from the dangerous minds behind the glass that watched our every
movement. I wanted so badly to believe he would keep me safe but as
he raised a dark cloth over my head I gasped. He held it
outstretched between clenched fists so I could see it and giving me
a smile that did nothing to allay my fears he said, “I can offer
you this. It might be better especially in the
beginning…”
    I felt my eyes water and the tears
trickled down the sides of face running into my ears then dropping
off to where I could I only assume they vanished into the pillow. I
willed him to do the right thing with every ounce of emotion I
could put into my gaze and was not ashamed to hear my voice shake
as I said, “Whatever happens please make the end come quickly…” I
stopped as I caught something wholly inhuman in his gaze. While he
had been stroking and petting my hair I could just catch subtle
sparks of amber and gold flashing within his liquid chocolate stare
but there was something else there now. Something I could not yet
define but my guts twisted and icy fingers clenched my heart as
finally I let myself wonder what he meant by the words ‘becoming
other.’
    “Are you sure you don’t want to shield
your view?” He paused and rolled his shoulders throwing his weird
eyes elsewhere. I