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What? Where am I? I try to open my eyes but can not. Panicked, I stand up, attempting to feel my surroundings. As I stand, two thoughts cross my mind. I'm wet, and my eyes are actually open! I'm stumbling in complete darkness. "Hello?" I whisper as I feel around trying to figure out where I am. The last thing I remembered was... Wait, I don't remember anything! Nothing, besides my current situation my mind is blank. Utterly blank! "Calm down," I say to myself, "let's start with what I do know." It's dark and wet. That's it. Some help that idea was. Why am I wet? I feel my body; it's not just wet, it's sticky. I'm covered in a gooey slime of some sort! "What the heck is this?!" I gasped loudly, as my echo startles me back to silence. The slime feels weird, almost like I can feel my fingers probing. I hear the snap of some twigs as I step carefully through the darkness. I need light, I need to be able to see. I crawl around feeling the cold damp floor, trying to find more sticks, hopefully some big enough to make a torch. Ew, this slime is all over the place. Everywhere I touch, there's gooey wetness, even on the big stick I finally find. I get to work trying to get this slime plastered stick to ignite. After what feels like hours, success! "Let there be light!" I exclaim, but my excitement is abruptly cut short. What was that sound? Or was it just my ears playing tricks on me. Being deprived of my sense of sight, makes the latter a distinct possibility. I look around carefully trying to see what made the small sound. I quickly lose interest in the search when I realize I can finally see where I am. A cave, I appear to be in a cave of sorts, nothing but stone, except for darkness further down the tunnel. As I hold up my torch to illuminate the darkened area, I see my arm. My green and black arm! I'm not just covered in slime, I am slime! Being able to see, I now wish I couldn't. I place the torch on a stone ledge and start examining myself again. I'm all slime except for dark black ridges zagging all over me, like a net holding in the slime. What am I? This couldn't possibly be me! I assumed I was human. I can't specifically remember anything at all before waking up in this cave but I had to of been human before! Right? What happened to make me this way? Was I like this forever? My mind raced with hundreds of thoughts and theories, as panick started to set in again. There's that sound again; coming from down one end of the tunnel. I pick up my torch, "Who's there?" I stammer, with a bellowing voice. No answer. A slowly start backing up towards the dark tunnel opposit of where the sound came from. The sound came again. My feet shuffle into a run. Heading away from the sound. The sound comes again and again as I run. Somethings coming after me. I run as fast as I can, torch in hand, heart pounding, eyes wide. The sound gets louder and faster as my speed increases and the cavern widens. I look back over my shoulder to try and see what's chasing me...Bam!! The tunnel comes to an end, as my head meets the stone wall and I fall to the ground. I dizzily look down the tunnel towards where I can to face my persuer. There's no one there. Fear turns to confusion, and I stand up I realize, it's the sound. It happens aft my foot touches the ground. The sand is my own footsteps. Releaved I head back to where I came from, as I walk I wonder how I could let myself think I was being chased. Like I'm scared of my own shadow! The tunnel seems to go on forever. So I have plenty of time to desperately try and remember something, anything, of my past, of who am. Or was, I suppose. Hours pass,and my mind remains as it was at the start of my endeavor, blank.