I had been completed; the cells in my limbs had joined together, clinging along the phalanges up my cranium. The veins climbed up the skeleton, like a stand-alone strand that came down the middle and other threads braided around it. They branched off the arms and ran all the way down to my thumbs. I stretched them out, feeling the blood flowing through my veins as it washed the dust away like an old book. The skin, my unctuous skin, had been revitalized, woven into microscopic pores across my skeleton and wrinkled at the elbow crooks as I bent my arms. It had puckered up around the wounds though I didn't remember having them.
It was like discovering my body anew. Any movement caught me off guard when I felt the soft texture of my skin running over the bones underneath, tickling me that I couldn't help chuckling. It was remarkable, why couldn't I feel it in my previous bodies? Was it a special one? Or I could feel it but being so accustomed to it that it felt weird now? No, it was impossible, even my subconscious confirmed it, but if it was me now. Where had I been?
The thin folded skin of my upper eyelid wrinkled up as if glue was smeared along the lower one. I struggled to open them away from each other. Suddenly, I had flipped up the lashes, and a source of sunlight penetrated through the cornea. But it was different this time, worse; it went all black and white, the unknown peeled the color off the outer space psychologically that it was just a monochrome now. Pieces of furniture spun around me, they moved so fast, they blurred like storm in a chaos of abstraction. Cracks broke through the surface as enormous lumps began to sprout out of it. The objects in the environment were being assimilated into my brain when the eye focused another image and got the required information: location, places, population. The amount was not important; I was just looking for existence, any sign of life. The faded colors splashed across the background as I blinked, crashing as waves against my new shell when the foam percolated down through the fissures in it, and painting the entire atmosphere.
My legs were like two trunks, solid as iron, slender as a deer's leg, embedded into the ground as the roots grew deeper beneath it, crawling like snakes on their abdomens and mounting on each other's spines as they spread across the autumnal leaves.
It was like discovering my body anew. Any movement caught me off guard when I felt the soft texture of my skin running over the bones underneath, tickling me that I couldn't help chuckling. It was remarkable, why couldn't I feel it in my previous bodies? Was it a special one? Or I could feel it but being so accustomed to it that it felt weird now? No, it was impossible, even my subconscious confirmed it, but if it was me now. Where had I been?
The thin folded skin of my upper eyelid wrinkled up as if glue was smeared along the lower one. I struggled to open them away from each other. Suddenly, I had flipped up the lashes, and a source of sunlight penetrated through the cornea. But it was different this time, worse; it went all black and white, the unknown peeled the color off the outer space psychologically that it was just a monochrome now. Pieces of furniture spun around me, they moved so fast, they blurred like storm in a chaos of abstraction. Cracks broke through the surface as enormous lumps began to sprout out of it. The objects in the environment were being assimilated into my brain when the eye focused another image and got the required information: location, places, population. The amount was not important; I was just looking for existence, any sign of life. The faded colors splashed across the background as I blinked, crashing as waves against my new shell when the foam percolated down through the fissures in it, and painting the entire atmosphere.
My legs were like two trunks, solid as iron, slender as a deer's leg, embedded into the ground as the roots grew deeper beneath it, crawling like snakes on their abdomens and mounting on each other's spines as they spread across the autumnal leaves.