"Damn it, why does it have to be now?" He slowly leaned back against the sea chart, pressing his throbbing temples tightly with his iron index and ring fingers.
Everything around him began to change quietly. The various devices inside the cockpit started to decay as if they were flesh and blood.
Beside him, Deep's body was changing. Metallic-colored scales sprouted from his skin, and his bright eyes turned a bulging, grayish-white, like those of a dead fish. A scaled, ridged spine grew from his back, and green gills twitched constantly. Webbing grew between his fingers. Unknowingly, Deep had transformed into a hideous and repulsive amphibian creature.
Compared to Deep, the abnormalities on Charles were just as severe.
Black, barbed tentacles writhing with eyeballs slid from his chest cavity. His body began to swell, growing larger and larger. His entire face had melted, and seven or eight crimson-black eyes pushed and squirmed across the space where his features used to be.
