Its all got...disconnected.

Everythings going a bit odd. I don't know where I am or what I'm doing. Everything's happening around me, and none of it touches me. It feels like I'm watching everything around me through glass, all of it falling apart, and none of it able to touch me.

I've stopped seeing people as people. Now they're simply constructions, there to be modified, played with, taken apart or put back together at will.

I broke an alarm clock today.

It was one of those old clockwork ones, old enough that it actually wound up with a key on the back.

I smashed the face with the hilt of a knife, bringing it down over and over until the glass shattered into tiny crystal pieces, felt the sharp edges bouncing from my hand, leaving it covered in tiny cuts that healed within seconds.

Then I started to tear it apart, pulling the metal casing away by force until the works were exposed.

I tried to undo it gently, and managed to take out a few cogs before something worked loose. There was the sound of the springs going, and they all uncoiled, into loose spirals of metal, sending gear wheels across the floor.

I've still got the gears. The clock's all quiet now, it won't wind again.

The gears look better than the clock ever did, those beautiful pieces of glass spread out on cloth. The clock was plain and ugly, but its pieces are beautiful.

Bunny