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ever since i was little
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i could always do it
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the first time i remember doing it i
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think i was three
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my mom literally caught me with my hand
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in the cookie jar i saw her marching up
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with her scary angry mom face and
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suddenly i stopped everything
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mom stood there still with her angry
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face mid-stride and her mouth opened
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terrifyingly as she'd been right in the
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middle of yelling something at me
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nothing moved
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there was no sound other than the
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ringing in my ears then i just knew
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i'd stopped it all
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i felt it
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i just sort of flexed something in my
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mind and time
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just stops
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once i was sure i was safe i quickly
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scarfed down my cookie and swallowed it
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up before putting on my most innocent
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face
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and letting time resume
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you know i told you no
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i swear mommy i didn't take a cookie
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i licked the crumbs from my lips as
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covertly as i could
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mom looked confused for a second as she
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looked me over
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oh
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i'm sorry baby
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i swore i saw a cookie in your hand
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what are you doing near the cookie jar
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i didn't completely escape that one but
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i totally minimized the damage and i got
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to eat a free cookie
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that's sort of how i used it as i grew
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up i learned pretty quickly that not
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everyone could stop the clock like i
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could
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i also learned there are limits
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when time is frozen it's truly frozen i
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can move about freely in a frozen world
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but i can't move anything
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people
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objects insects in flight all of them
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are frozen in exactly the same spot as
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before and no amount of force i exert
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can move them
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i learned to be careful running around
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outside when i ran right into a
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bumblebee and knocked the wind right out
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of myself as it completely halted my
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excited sprinting the next thing i
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learned was to wear thick shoes
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when grass can't be moved it becomes a
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field of spikes i'm pretty sure i could
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stab myself with it if i tried hard
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enough
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with a thick pair of shoes i could
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carefully cross over well-manicured
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lawns the more unruly ones i stayed away
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from
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there are exceptions sort of like the
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cookie i was holding it when i first
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stopped time so i was able to carry it
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with me and eat
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my own clothes move with me too
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if i tried to grab another cookie they'd
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have been like statues stuck to wherever
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they were
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other people's clothes are like that too
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so i can't go undressing people while
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time is frozen which i'm happy for in
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hindsight but we'll talk about how bad i
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was as a teenager in a bit
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for some reason bringing objects into
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frozen time doesn't apply to people i'm
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touching i can bring a cookie but
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another person i'm touching just freezes
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up like everything else
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i accidentally got my hand caught in the
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folds of my mother's skirt once because
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i froze time and it held me like a vice
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that's the first rule
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nothing can be moved
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the second rule is in order for time to
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start back up i had to be pretty damn
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close to where i was when i first froze
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time
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otherwise it feels like
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it's hard to explain
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you know those video glitches on
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streaming services where it hiccups and
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stops for a few seconds but then it
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rushes to catch up and the last few
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seconds of footage sort of speed by
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it feels like that in my brain
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like i'm desperately trying to push
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forward and catch up in my brain but i
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literally can't until i'm back close to
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where i was when i started
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i suppose i could also say it was like a
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skipping record but i don't know how
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many people would get that these days i
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don't have to be in the exact same
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position as i was at first thankfully
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just close
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my mom says i had a tendency to dash
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away and that i was weirdly fast at
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times
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so other people might slightly notice
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some odd visuals as i stop and start but
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since i'm close to my original spot it's
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nothing they can't explain
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i tried to show a friend once i told him
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to watch an apple i was holding
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i froze time and set it on the table
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then started time again
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he says to him
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it looked like i just put it down really
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fast
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so i tried again
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this time i threw the apple in the air
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once it left my hand and rose an inch it
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froze like the rest of the world
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my friend just saw me toss the apple in
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the air
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so i tried it one more time
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i picked up the apple froze time and
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tried to set it down on the other side
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of the room
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but then i couldn't start time again
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objects like the apple had to be close
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to their original position too
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thankfully i could still pick it up
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i never did find a surefire way to
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convince people i could freeze time
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not until i was older
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growing up with this ability it was
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strange
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i was a weird introvert already and when
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you can stop time like a deity you sort
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of develop a complex and further isolate
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yourself
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i wasn't completely without friends mind
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you high school was hard puberty hit me
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like a freight train
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despite my parents being wonderful
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people who taught me about boundaries
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and respect i made a conscious decision
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to ignore a lot of that in high school
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i just as soon not mention any of my
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deviant behavior but the thing is i have
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to
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i think that was the first time i saw it
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one time
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i went into the girl's locker room and
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froze time
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and as i stood there among my classmates
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i came to a realization
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they were a bunch of people just like me
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not only that
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they were my classmates
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i just felt like a dirty intruder and
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that was suddenly a lot less exciting to
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me
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i turned to leave hoping to pretend this
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never happened and that's when i saw a
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shadow on the wall
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to this day i have no clue whose shadow
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it was
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it was frozen on the wall like
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everything else but i was transfixed by
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it
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who was casting this shadow
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why did it look so
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alien
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i was utterly unnerved so i hustled out
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of the showers unfroze time and i ran
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home scared and feeling very dirty
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as i should have
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somehow i shook off my terrible teens
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and i became a more respectful person
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i grew up
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got a job
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i have a fiance now
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it's been 10 years since i used my time
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freezing ability for anything nefarious
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i still use the power from time to time
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it's pretty handy at the few jobs i've
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had
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it's also great for introverted nerds
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like me if i need to get away i can just
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freeze everything
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and go sit and stare at the sky for a
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few hours in absolute silence
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my fiance believes that i can freeze
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time now
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and here's how
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we devised a test we could do
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she wrote things onto a post-it note and
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placed it face down on a glass table
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while keeping her eyes on me sitting
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across the room she'd tell me she was
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ready and i would freeze time crawl
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under the table and read what she wrote
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before returning to my seat unfreezing
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time and reciting what she'd written she
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tried to talk me into other experiments
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but i declined and she respected that i
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just wanted to live my life so we did
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that brings us to now
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something has changed
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about a month ago i froze time in the
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middle of getting yelled at by my boss
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i spent some time telling him where he
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could shove his citations and screaming
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obscenities before wandering the office
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for a time
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i grinned when i saw i'd frozen a
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co-worker in the midst of playing a game
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of solitaire when he was supposed to be
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working
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i stopped to look out a window staring
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at the frozen world outside wrestling my
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anger under control and preparing to
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return to my boss to let him finish his
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tirade
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i walked past my solitaire playing
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friend and when i glanced at his
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computer screen i noticed something off
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it was turned off
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at the time i kind of just assumed i'd
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mixed up co-workers so i sort of ignored
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it when i got back to the boss's office
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i swore his coffee mug was turned in a
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different direction
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when i'd frozen time before i could read
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the writing on his coffee mug
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no one cares work harder
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yeah he's that kind of jerk
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now from that position
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all i saw was the black of the other
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side
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this guy always keeps his mug face out
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to remind his underpaid underlings that
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they should be doing more for him and
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also i saw the freaking writing when i
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first froze this moment
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why couldn't i see it now
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i couldn't move the cup or anything so
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what else could i do
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i resumed time and i let the idiot keep
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yelling at me he made sure to turn his
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cup to tell me to work harder as i left
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the office
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out of curiosity i checked in with my
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solitaire friend
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his computer had crashed poor guy lost a
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really important report he was working
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on he had to redo it not sure why he was
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playing solitaire
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i convinced myself nothing was wrong
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that i just made mistakes
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someone else was playing solitaire and i
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just imagined i'd seen the words on the
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boss's coffee cup
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but things like that have been happening
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more frequently
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small things i could easily miss
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every time i freeze time now i'll notice
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something
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at home
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my toothbrush will move
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or a book will be askew on the shelf
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i was driving myself nuts with it i kept
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trying to convince myself i was just
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being paranoid nothing can move when
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time is frozen
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nothing but me but last week
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something happened that's never happened
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before
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i froze time so i could wander around
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outside the frozen town proper is just
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sort of fascinating i was strolling
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along and all of a sudden
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there it was
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a noise
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there was never any noise before
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even my own feet made no sound as i
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walked about with time frozen
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but i heard it clear as day
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it was a thump
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it echoed out of some alley
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i've never been so scared in my life
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time was frozen
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i'd wandered through the statues of
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frozen people going about their day
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thousands of times
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it had always been my space
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my sanctuary
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but now
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something else was here
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how could anything make a sound if time
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was frozen
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i ran
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i bruised myself on a floating mosquito
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as i weaved through the frozen crowds
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i'd never been afraid of the frozen
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people before because i knew they
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couldn't do anything
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but now
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any one of them could have made the
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noise
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maybe some were only pretending they
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were frozen
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who made that sound
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finally i made it back to my original
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spot
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i stood there panting trying to start
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time back up so i wouldn't feel so alone
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but for a brief moment
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i couldn't move it
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i glanced around with a sense of growing
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dread
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and that's when i saw something else
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move around the frozen cityscape
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it was only a shadow just a flicker of
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some dark shape
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it wasn't human
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its limbs were long its head almost
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looked like an egg and there were white
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empty half circles where eyes ought to
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be
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just white voids
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it was the same shadow from the wall of
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the showers all those years ago
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somehow i knew that
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and it wasn't frozen this time
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our eyes met
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then everything started moving and the
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shadow vanished
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i started screaming right in the middle
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of the sidewalk
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i refused to freeze time ever again
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i hoped that whatever that thing was
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i left it trapped in that frozen moment
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but who the hell knows
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if i freeze time again maybe it will be
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in the next frozen moment waiting for me
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i don't think it's safe there anymore
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my sanctuary is gone
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but it can't reach me here
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right
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well
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i'm not so sure
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my fiance is now convinced our house is
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haunted she says she keeps seeing a
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shadow man staring at her
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her possessions keep moving
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toiletries knick-knacks some of her
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clothes
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i tried to tell myself it wasn't the
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egghead she thought it was a stalker at
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first
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i rolled with that and started watching
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out for other clues
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but then she saw the white eyes
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she shrieked when it happened
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she said she saw them at the foot of our
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bed
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it happened again the next evening
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we spent the day distracting ourselves
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then the evening brainstorming ideas
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eventually she left to take a shower
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while i looked for shadow figures online
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minutes after i heard the water shut off
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i heard her scream
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i froze time and ran to her
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by some miracle she hadn't closed the
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door as she dressed herself after her
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shower so i was able to run right into
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the room
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there she was
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she dropped her towel and was recoiling
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in terror
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she stood there frozen
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reeling away about to fall backwards
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i followed her gaze
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there was the egg head shadow
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and it wasn't a shadow anymore
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it stood there in the room
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a living shadowy mass in a horrifically
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humanoid shape
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then it turned and looked at me with its
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empty white voids
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it wasn't frozen
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the next thing i knew
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i couldn't move
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i was as frozen as my fiance but i was
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still aware
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i could only watch helplessly as its
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shadowy limbs shuddered to life
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and it skulked towards her
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it walked behind her out of my sight
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i heard it rummaging around
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a minute later i could move again
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time was still frozen i scoured the
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house for that thing but i couldn't find
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a trace
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what the hell had it done
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i returned to the bathroom and stared
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helplessly at my fiance she was gonna
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fall
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she'd slipped when she saw that thing
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i moved towards where i saw the egghead
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and that's where i found the pair of
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scissors
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they sat right where the woman i loved
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was going to land
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i tried to move them
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but of course i couldn't
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i tried moving her but i couldn't do
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that either
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i spent hours just trying to do
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something to this frozen moment so my
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fiance wouldn't lose her life the second
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i started things up
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i even tried taking off my shirt to put
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between her and the blade to minimize
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the damage but i couldn't start time
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back up without my shirt
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i felt so utterly helpless
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with nothing else to do
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i went back downstairs to restart time
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and sprint it up to the bedroom to aid
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my terrified fiance
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i already had emergency services on the
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way
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i found her crying on the ground in an
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alarmingly large puddle of blood
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she'd impaled her wrist on the scissors
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she's in recovery now
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i acted fast enough that they managed to
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save her they closed the artery and
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she's receiving donor blood
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that
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thing
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put the scissors there
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i know it
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it tried to kill her
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it's been three days since then
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in that time three different people have
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died mysteriously in our town
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bizarre accidents
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one in a million chances that people
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could die in such bizarre ways
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but so far we've had three
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an older woman stumbled in such a way
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that she fell forward and the pens from
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a pencil cup went into her eye
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straight through to her brain
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a man stepped out of his pool and
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tripped over a misplaced pool float and
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landed on his fuse box in such a way
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that he'd been electrocuted
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apparently it needed servicing that
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nobody knew about
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a teenage boy on a skateboard was thrown
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into the street when his board smacked
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into a toy on the sidewalk that nobody
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could identify
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he'd been hit by a car
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that all happened in the last two days
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maybe it's all a coincidence
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but i don't think so
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i'm not sure what this thing is or where
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it came from
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but it has control over time
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more than i do even
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and it seems to enjoy killing
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i worry that i'm the one who called it
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here somehow
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as far as i know
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it's still out there
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i'm going after it
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i have to try and stop it
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it might come back for the woman i love
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it's more powerful than me but maybe i
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just haven't figured out all that i can
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do
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i'm sorry delilah
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i hope i'll be back soon
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for anyone who hadn't heard my fiance
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claims he can freeze time and that some
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sort of monster appeared from one of his
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frozen moments
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he's been missing for three weeks now
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i've been trying to find him since i got
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out of the hospital
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i guess he forgot that he gave me his
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reddit password
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i finally found his story
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and his farewell
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his name is sean
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he's a really sweet guy
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we were gonna get married sometime next
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year
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i didn't know what to think about the
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ability he had
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on some level
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i think i always thought it was some
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kind of magic trick he could do
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it bothered me a little that he seemed
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to really believe in it though but the
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thing was
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i could never disprove it
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i tried
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i tried writing things on the other side
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of the house before asking him to go
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read them
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and every time he'd look at me
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smile
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and recite what i'd written word for
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word
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like he was just pulling it out of my
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head
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if he could really freeze time
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i have no idea what he's doing as a
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regular office worker he works in
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accounting
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if he could freeze time shouldn't he be
00:20:29
employed by the military as some sort of
00:20:31
super spy
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he also said there were too many
00:20:34
limitations i've clung to the idea that
00:20:37
whatever he was doing it wasn't freezing
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time
00:20:41
i mean if he did
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how come he can move through air
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molecules
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how can he breathe and process oxygen
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the physics make no sense
00:20:51
it had to be some kind of magic trick
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right
00:20:56
for a while it was just a quirk but it
00:20:58
started to get serious
00:21:00
first he came home one day looking all
00:21:03
kinds of flustered he told me he saw
00:21:06
something after he froze time
00:21:08
something that moved
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he said he started screaming in the
00:21:12
middle of town
00:21:14
i actually got a text from a friend who
00:21:16
saw it happen asking if he was okay so
00:21:19
he definitely screamed in public
00:21:21
then he told me all about the egghead
00:21:24
shadow i'm pretty good at reading people
00:21:27
he was scared of something but what
00:21:30
could he have seen
00:21:32
if his powers were real it's even
00:21:34
scarier what could possibly move between
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the frozen moments of one person
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and free-flowing time
00:21:43
things went downhill after that
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but you already know that
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i started seeing the egghead
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i never got a good look
00:21:51
it was always just a glimpse of an
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elongated limb in my periphery or a
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shadow flitting by a doorway and it was
00:21:59
all accompanied by a weird chill that
00:22:02
would give me goosebumps
00:22:04
and make me panic
00:22:06
then things started moving
00:22:08
i'm telling you i thought it was just in
00:22:11
a typical ghost story after that or
00:22:13
maybe i had some creepy stalker moving
00:22:16
my things when i wasn't looking
00:22:18
then one time i swear a bottle of
00:22:21
perfume i was looking directly at
00:22:24
vanished before my eyes
00:22:26
it just blinked out of existence and
00:22:29
left me wondering whether it had ever
00:22:31
been there in the first place
00:22:34
sean said he couldn't move things like
00:22:36
that
00:22:37
so was it his egghead
00:22:39
then came that night
00:22:41
that night i truly saw the egghead for
00:22:44
the first time
00:22:45
i saw it clearly and it was even worse
00:22:48
than sean described
00:22:50
it was reaching for me with gangly limbs
00:22:54
and elongated fingers
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those white voids where eyes would be
00:22:59
seemed to suck in the air around them
00:23:02
and there was a mouth
00:23:04
just a little half moon slit filled by
00:23:07
the same white void as its eyes
00:23:11
which gave it this weird frowny face
00:23:15
i screamed
00:23:17
fell and almost died when i landed on a
00:23:20
pair of scissors shawn got me to the
00:23:22
hospital
00:23:23
i remember him telling me he loved me
00:23:27
that was the last time i saw him
00:23:29
he was in contact for maybe a week
00:23:32
i kept trying to convince him to come
00:23:34
home
00:23:35
his responses
00:23:37
got erratic
00:23:39
then they stopped
00:23:41
a day later
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the egghead reappeared
00:23:45
right in my face
00:23:47
i stepped out of the shower and there it
00:23:49
was
00:23:50
its flesh was like a black void but its
00:23:54
eyes were like empty holes leading to
00:23:56
pure whiteness just like sean described
00:24:00
my body froze
00:24:02
but i was left aware as the thing took a
00:24:05
wobbly step towards me
00:24:08
i couldn't move my eyes
00:24:10
i couldn't breathe
00:24:12
i couldn't do anything
00:24:14
soon it was inches from me
00:24:16
i could taste it
00:24:18
since i couldn't breathe i couldn't
00:24:20
smell it or anything but its rank
00:24:23
metallic aura poured over me all the
00:24:26
same and stained my tongue
00:24:30
it tasted like death
00:24:32
i was forced to stare into its eyes and
00:24:35
i saw something in them
00:24:38
something in the endless white
00:24:40
i'm trying to think of the words to
00:24:42
describe what i saw
00:24:44
but i can't
00:24:46
there was a sudden crash and world of
00:24:48
noises
00:24:50
and suddenly i could move again
00:24:52
just like the first time i fell
00:24:55
no scissors were there to stab me this
00:24:57
time
00:24:58
when i finally got my bearings
00:25:00
i found the egghead gone
00:25:02
and the house empty
00:25:04
i wanted answers
00:25:06
i found my way to his reddit page and
00:25:09
read his account
00:25:10
i've been looking into things since
00:25:12
the number of fatal accidents keeps
00:25:15
increasing
00:25:17
does that mean sean failed
00:25:19
time is still moving and bad things are
00:25:22
still happening i was gonna wait and
00:25:24
hope that he'd contact me again
00:25:26
the last text he sent said
00:25:30
i think i found it
00:25:32
then nothing
00:25:34
i went to the police and filed the
00:25:35
missing person's report and all
00:25:38
i've talked to his parents and friends
00:25:40
i had to tell them i didn't know what
00:25:42
he's doing which wasn't a lie
00:25:45
but i still omitted the part about the
00:25:47
time freezing shadow
00:25:49
i can't stay quiet now though
00:25:52
something is happening to me and it's
00:25:54
growing in intensity
00:25:56
it started as a headache
00:25:58
i figured it was distress i mean i
00:26:01
almost died and my fiance vanished soon
00:26:04
after
00:26:05
my friends all think he stabbed me
00:26:07
himself and i'm covering for him so of
00:26:10
course i'm stressed
00:26:12
i wasn't surprised when i felt it the
00:26:13
first time
00:26:15
it was almost like a scratching
00:26:17
sensation
00:26:18
one happening inside my skull
00:26:21
it both was and wasn't physical
00:26:25
i almost felt like i could hear it for a
00:26:27
few seconds
00:26:28
it sounded like rusty metal being
00:26:31
dragged against more rusty metal but
00:26:34
maybe with a dash of something organic
00:26:36
a sort of wet squelch
00:26:39
it lasted maybe five seconds and then my
00:26:41
head started to throb
00:26:44
like i said i thought it was just a
00:26:46
headache and ignored it
00:26:48
but it keeps happening
00:26:50
it almost seems to happen at random
00:26:52
times i haven't figured out a pattern
00:26:54
yet i'll just be staring into space
00:26:57
i've been doing a lot of that these days
00:27:00
and then all of a sudden i feel this
00:27:02
scratching in my head throbs i didn't
00:27:06
think it was anything but stress until
00:27:08
it happened while i was moving
00:27:10
i've never felt anything like it
00:27:13
along with the headache and the
00:27:15
scratching
00:27:16
it felt like i'd entered a cloud of
00:27:19
molasses
00:27:20
i could barely move
00:27:22
and as i did move it was way slower than
00:27:25
it should have been
00:27:27
that was when i started to suspect it
00:27:29
had something to do with sean and that
00:27:31
thing
00:27:32
i have no idea how
00:27:34
it makes no logical sense is time
00:27:38
breaking down around me
00:27:40
why do i even feel anything
00:27:42
if time stopped why would i even be
00:27:45
aware
00:27:46
as far as i can tell time is just moving
00:27:50
forward normally
00:27:52
i still don't know
00:27:54
it keeps happening
00:27:56
the last time it happened
00:27:58
my nose started bleeding
00:28:01
it's been two days
00:28:03
he's gone
00:28:05
i was in a frozen moment at some point
00:28:08
i was typing and my computer keys just
00:28:11
stopped working
00:28:12
they suddenly felt as solid as steel and
00:28:15
wouldn't move no matter how i pushed
00:28:18
i looked around
00:28:20
and everything was frozen
00:28:22
it's just like sean described everything
00:28:25
frozen in place
00:28:27
it was raining outside
00:28:29
the droplets were like little cold glass
00:28:32
road blocks
00:28:34
i couldn't move them
00:28:36
so i was trapped in the house
00:28:38
and that thing was there
00:28:41
it looked different
00:28:42
it wasn't as elongated and i swear it
00:28:45
was trying to talk to me but it sounded
00:28:48
like its voice was a million miles away
00:28:51
or maybe a few moments in the past or
00:28:54
future
00:28:55
it didn't seem malevolent it kept
00:28:58
gesturing in may
00:29:00
its white eyes were wide circles
00:29:04
for a time
00:29:05
it looked like it was mimicking the
00:29:07
motions of writing something on a piece
00:29:10
of paper
00:29:11
when it tried to touch me
00:29:13
i swear something in the universe
00:29:17
just broke
00:29:18
i'm back in the hospital
00:29:20
when that thing touched me i was
00:29:23
wrenched back to my original spot in my
00:29:25
computer
00:29:26
so fast and violently i now have a
00:29:29
concussion because i think my brain
00:29:32
bounced around in my skull
00:29:34
somehow nothing else is physically wrong
00:29:36
with me
00:29:37
i feel like the force should have ripped
00:29:40
my limbs off
00:29:42
i only have a theory on what happened
00:29:45
i don't think that egghead was the same
00:29:47
one i saw before
00:29:49
i think this one was sean
00:29:52
and i think he was trying to communicate
00:29:54
it's possible he's been trying for a
00:29:56
while and that's what that scratching
00:29:59
sensation was
00:30:01
i guess he figured out how to do
00:30:02
different things with his ability maybe
00:30:05
he could even pass forward or backward
00:30:08
in time but i think it took a physical
00:30:10
toll on him
00:30:12
i think that's why he looked like an
00:30:14
egghead
00:30:15
i don't know why he looked like a living
00:30:17
shadow
00:30:18
but maybe he
00:30:21
smeared himself across time
00:30:24
maybe the other egghead was someone else
00:30:27
who tried to meddle even more
00:30:29
i haven't seen anything strange since i
00:30:32
was frozen
00:30:33
there was however one more incident
00:30:36
sean and an unknown man
00:30:39
were both found dead in a local
00:30:41
warehouse
00:30:43
cause of death is unknown
00:30:46
both bore strange burns on their bodies
00:30:50
that nobody could identify
00:30:52
the people think they found a genetic
00:30:54
link between the unknown man and someone
00:30:58
else
00:30:59
that person is only 14 right now but
00:31:02
they've already got a rap sheet i went
00:31:04
to identify sean's body
00:31:07
it was definitely him
00:31:09
he looks older than i remember
00:31:12
i don't know if that has something to do
00:31:13
with his powers or not
00:31:16
my fiance is gone
00:31:18
i think the threat is too
00:31:21
are there more
00:31:23
how far do their powers go
00:31:26
i'm scared
00:31:28
and i wish sean was here
00:31:31
update
00:31:32
i know i haven't posted yet
00:31:35
but i found something
00:31:36
sean left one last message
00:31:39
i'm not sure how
00:31:41
it was sitting on a table when i got
00:31:43
home from the hospital it was where that
00:31:46
shadow looked like it was writing
00:31:48
something
00:31:49
this is what sean said
00:31:52
dear delilah
00:31:54
i don't know why i can do the things i
00:31:56
do
00:31:57
i figured i was just a mutant or some
00:31:59
00:32:00
but i'm not the only one
00:32:02
the first one i saw
00:32:05
came from the future
00:32:06
it learned how to turn back time
00:32:10
and it's wreaking havoc
00:32:13
every time it moves something that
00:32:15
shouldn't move
00:32:17
i feel it
00:32:18
it sounds like massive metal slabs
00:32:22
grinding against each other
00:32:25
every time someone dies
00:32:28
it becomes a cacophony
00:32:30
whatever it's doing
00:32:32
something is breaking
00:32:34
i figured out how to do new things
00:32:37
it hurts
00:32:39
the only thing that doesn't hurt is what
00:32:41
i used to do
00:32:42
where i just move around in a frozen
00:32:44
moment
00:32:46
anything else
00:32:47
it feels like it's stretching me
00:32:51
i think i understand now
00:32:53
it is stretching me it's making me exist
00:32:57
in multiple moments at once in the same
00:33:01
universe
00:33:02
that's not supposed to be possible
00:33:05
that's why my skin is fading
00:33:08
that's why when i look into my
00:33:10
reflections eyes
00:33:12
i see those white voids
00:33:15
the other egghead was hiding in a single
00:33:18
moment
00:33:19
but then it came after you
00:33:21
i chased it away
00:33:23
but i was following in that moment for
00:33:25
what felt like years
00:33:28
i think he was toying with me
00:33:30
after all that time the grading sound
00:33:33
barely phases me but i feel the effects
00:33:36
getting worse i finally figured out how
00:33:39
to fight it and i think i have it
00:33:41
cornered
00:33:42
i have it frozen in a moment
00:33:45
but i had to come back and try to say
00:33:47
goodbye first
00:33:49
i love you delilah and the only way i
00:33:53
can think to stop this thing
00:33:56
will kill me too
00:33:58
i wish i could spend my life with you
00:34:00
but it's better this way
00:34:03
the fewer of us time manipulators there
00:34:06
are
00:34:07
the better
00:34:08
i know that sounds like but
00:34:11
please understand
00:34:13
i've seen the void behind the egghead's
00:34:16
eyes
00:34:18
it leads somewhere outside of time as we
00:34:21
know it
00:34:22
outside our universe
00:34:25
i've seen the things there
00:34:28
that want to get in
00:34:31
i hear them talking to me
00:34:34
trying to get me to meddle with time
00:34:37
even more
00:34:39
i won't do it
00:34:41
i'm sorry delilah
00:34:44
and i'm sorry that i scared you
00:34:46
i'm an egghead now too
00:34:49
live your best life
00:34:52
and don't forget me
00:34:55
yours forever
00:34:57
sean
00:35:01
[Music]
00:35:08
you
