… you looked. And it gets confusing…

You are walking down the street to buy a Big M and pie for lunch, cause you’re hungry, when you get this odd sensation. Like someone is looking at you. You pause, feeling as though you should just keep walking. Get your Egg Flip Big M and your bacon and cheese pie… or maybe the green curry chicken pie… you should be walking. But you’re not. It feels like you’re derailing. You’re turning and looking.

And you see it.

***

“It looked.” They observed.

“They never look.” They said.

The Them. They considered. The Them were annoyed. This was inconvenient.

“This one did.” They noted as They looked at you.

Where were you? Who were They? What the fuck was happening!? Why are they calling you an it!? You have a gender!

“Language!” They said, a little prissy.

What, could They read your thoughts. What the heck was happening?!

“It did?” They asked primly and efficiently, with prim efficiency in fact, They seemed to be of two minds, returning back to the topic at hand. They’re like that it seemed. Of two minds. Them.

“It did,” They answered.

Me? You thought. You felt disembodied and not a little discombobulated.

“It saw?” They stated as a question.

“Well it must not have seen. So… Let us reverse that.” Again you felt like things were derailing from Their proper path… or like you were being put on new rails. Wait. What is happening?

“Should we tell it?” They asked.

“I suppose. You derailed. You looked. You saw. You came here. The land of Them. Unfortunately you lost your body and world. We will be putting you in a new body in a new world. One with… a gender.”

What? Wait? Your body and world are gone. What about your pie and Big M?

“Irrelevant, goodbye. And next time do not look,” They said.