That evening, in the hospital's morgue, Theo finds himself naked on a metal table and much less dead than most people had been led to believe earlier.
In fact, he's feeling quite alive.
He… is feeling very very confused. But it's fine. He'll just… lean up. Look around himself.
The table feels weird.
… Would it be weird for him to turn over and have a closer look at it?
Because he's doing that.
Well no, he's probably not.
The table, however, is very interesting, and ooh, it's shiny, he can see his own face in it.
Oooh.
He tilts his head. Is it just him or does he look super dashing today, like seriously dashing, like how can you even get this handsome and– the table is very very smooth.
… He is tempted to lick it.
… And he'd only be licking approximately where his head was, so it's totally– fine, right?
He looks around, a little bit furtively, then: he licks it.
It's… it's kind of wonderful.
He feels like he should try licking some more things now. Like his arm – that's not weird, it's a bit of him, this is totally okay.
Yep! It's totally okay. And it also tastes just like he remembers but also somehow not. That he's sure he could use to distinguish people. If only there was someone else there he could lick.
(...hey, speaking of his reflection on the table, did his eyes use to be this blue?)
He's sure they were not but he thinks he kinda likes the change? It's much better than the previous blue-gray thing, now they're vibrant.
He lifts his head and looks around again. There was a body. Has the body moved, or is the body where the body was?
He hopes it hasn't moved.
He… squints a little.
There are plenty of other things he could lick, too. Like the walls. Maybe they taste interesting. He's already tried 'person'.
… But he's totally going to lick that body too.
Ooh.
Now why does a dead body taste tasty? That's curious. It probably requires experimentation, doesn't it?
He'll just bite right down on their neck.
Nom.
… Does the door taste different from the wall? Because he totally licks it.
(Wall. Can a word taste funny? It feels… wall… ish. It's very… 'w'-ish. There's a 'w'.)
He opens the door then! … Does it have a handle he has to push or what because, like, he just pushes it open.
He gives it a glare for its transgression and then walks past it.
… Wait, he's naked. Can he see any clothes?
Well, he'll just have to go looking for some in that case.
Out through the– archway, since it now lacks a door, and… what's around him?
Anything interestingly interactable?
… He thinks he will go look at the wall, in that case, and examine it in great detail.
Because it's just that interesting.
He might lick it a little but then he thinks he will just walk along the corridor to whatever door comes first on his right.