Well. Elena TRIED helping me.

What happened was that I poked the water orb. Except, instead of being a gastropod, I was a... it was as if I still had some sort of skin. I couldn't absorb the water into myself or anything. "Ergh. I just found out I'm not some water-based slime." I pulled my arm away from the orb that was still suspended in the air, feeling that familiar prick that I imagined a long time ago...

I ended up pressing my arm against the menacing hedge, in an attempt to dry my arm gone horribly wrong (I was just flicking water away). Told you this was inevitable, or at least implied it was. Anyway, like an actual human, I felt pretty damn unwell. [i]Argh... does anyone have a medic bag? MEDIC! Oh, I've really hit rock-bottom... The hull has been breached and the science is leaking out![/i] No time for video game thoughts. [i]Pills here! He's been hit![/i] There was really more to life than this. I went on a hike once, and... some other outside activities. My kidneys shut down at one point, so I really did have to stay inside the hospital. 

Already my view was rapidly shifting colours, and I felt as if I needed to stretch everywhere... even more than usual. I really felt as if I could just eat my friends as if they were food on a dish. [i]I'M MELTING![/i] Meanwhile, the snow-covered skylight above seemed to cave in every few seconds. Regardless, I knew I was going to... hang by the edge of life. Something would save me... depending if going crazy by poisons counted as actually going crazy.

And we still didn't even start the maze. I was just melting slowly, with chunks of myself dropping out. "Alright... let's just solve this... quickly." I slurred, clearly not even awake at this point.