Cherished Museby
wildirisComment by K3Master: He felt rather strange, and wondered what had happened. The last he remembered, he'd been hiking along the path that he frequented often, just another hike like any other. He remembered turning the corner and... yes. Yes, he remembered, faintly, seeing something there, floating. Some kind of misty, thing. It had been glowing slightly, and he had cocked his head in bewilderment and then...
... and then nothing. He had blanked out. All was darkness after that.
He shuddered, and thought perhaps he must have had some kind of weird fainting spell and a hallucination to go with it. That had to be it. Weird glowing floating things don't just happen. This was reality!
He sat up from where he lay, and rubbed his head, his vision still slightly cloudy, and realized he couldn't really focus properly. As he sat there trying to get his eyes to work properly, he suddenly heard a loud snap from behind him. With a gasp he spun around and his jaw dropped in shock.
There, before him, was a giant mantis. It was almost the same size as he, and the incomprehensibility of such a thing nearly tore his sanity from him. He stood there and gaped, and then, as his eyesight began to recover, he noticed that it was not a giant mantis after all, for everything around him had become immense. The leaves were the size of sofas, the grasses as tall as houses, and the trees, the trees were beyond the scope of his comprehension.
His mind suddenly refused to process what he was seeing, and he was cemented to the spot, sitting there, gaping. Then, the mantis cocked its head, seemed to consider him for a moment, and with a reflex faster than one could measure it snapped at him.
He screamed as it came away with a chunk of arm, and then, with a second lightning jab, the screaming stopped.
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