{
  "description": "<p>So. It finally happened.</p>\n\n<p>That thing you were afraid of, the one you spent weeks (months?) going to great lengths to avoid. Despite your best efforts (you <em>were</em> trying your hardest, weren't you? Taking <em>all</em> the precautions?) it got you anyway, just like so many others before you...</p>\n\n<p>It started subtle; you didn't even recognize it at first. You were a little out-of-sorts, maybe; just <em>slightly</em> funny in the head. Maybe there were things you found yourself doing without really knowing why; maybe stuff you'd never noticed or cared for before suddenly took on a new fascination for you...</p>\n\n<p>Well, it didn't take long for the truth to come out; once things really started to change, there was no missing what was happening to you. (Really, how could you <em>not</em> realize it?)</p>\n\n<p>Oh, you went through all the usual stages: anger (well, more <em>indignance,</em>) a brief and <em>very</em> ineffectual flirtation with denial, a bout of frantic casting-about for a way out of this. But at the end of the day, there was nothing you could do but <em>watch</em> as the self you thought you knew gradually metamorphosized into something else...</p>\n\n<p>And now, at last, it's over. Like it or not, that \"something else\" is staring back at you from the mirror, no longer a phantom haunting the back of your mind, but a living, breathing, reality - <em>yours.</em> And the question now is:</p>\n\n<p>How do you feel?</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>I was still working on getting \"Nyandemic Story\" hammered back into shape, in between my usual <em>smörgåsbord</em> of way too many other projects, but I got all in a mood and <em>had</em> to do this as soon as I thought of it. Not the first POV thing I've drawn, but the first I've completed; the hand in the mirror ended up kinda screwy, but I'm 120% happy with everything else, and it's a minor miracle I got the first-person hand to work at <em>all...</em> Seriously pleased with this, nitpicks aside :)</p>\n"
}