His beautiful, living, rippling skin shrank around him and bled out human dermis. Raw pink patches of new skin constricted, cling-film tight, dripping gelatinous residue as it leaked from the inside out. The world spun away, the kitchen solidified, reality returned to its usual number of dimensions. His limbs bound themselves to the usual number. He was naked and alone, shivering in the enormity of the universe.
