They hid in our homes, the imposters who came with the fog. They played at being normal people and when our backs were turned they ran inside and locked us all out. Their faces peered out at us, mockingly worried but mostly amused at our panic.
Naturally the first thing we tried was breaking the glass but we found that our hands passing through the buildings like they weren't there and soon everything else we tried to touch was just another illusion of theirs. We resorted to sleeping in doorways and bus shelters and found ourselves clustering together against the cold that settled deep into our bones as the fog gradually settled in.
Apparently three years passed like this, us on the outside just wandering about trying to find our way back into our old homes while the imposters stared out at us and ate our food. It never occurred to us that we weren't feeling hunger or thirst. It never occurred to us that we could leave the fog- as far as we were aware the only place where the fog wasn't present was in all the buildings the imposters were squatting in.
When the fog began to fade they started to come out of our homes, muttering amongst themselves that we would fade too which didn't make sense to us until the air was clear enough that we could see ourselves for the first time in such a long time and we understood.
They were never the imposters - we were.
Naturally the first thing we tried was breaking the glass but we found that our hands passing through the buildings like they weren't there and soon everything else we tried to touch was just another illusion of theirs. We resorted to sleeping in doorways and bus shelters and found ourselves clustering together against the cold that settled deep into our bones as the fog gradually settled in.
Apparently three years passed like this, us on the outside just wandering about trying to find our way back into our old homes while the imposters stared out at us and ate our food. It never occurred to us that we weren't feeling hunger or thirst. It never occurred to us that we could leave the fog- as far as we were aware the only place where the fog wasn't present was in all the buildings the imposters were squatting in.
When the fog began to fade they started to come out of our homes, muttering amongst themselves that we would fade too which didn't make sense to us until the air was clear enough that we could see ourselves for the first time in such a long time and we understood.
They were never the imposters - we were.
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