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00:00In this world, every child receives a photograph of themselves exactly 25 years into the future.
00:04But there's one strange rule.
00:06The photograph only shows a single moment, without explaining what's actually happening.
00:09One girl saw herself standing on a huge stage, so everyone believed she would become famous.
00:13Another boy saw himself behind prison bars, and suddenly, nobody wanted to be his friend.
00:17And in one small village, there was a teacher who was completely obsessed with these photographs.
00:21She believed they could tell exactly what every student would become.
00:24But one day, a boy named Peter received a photograph that left everyone confused.
00:27It showed him wearing blue hospital clothes, standing beside a doctor and a patient.
00:31Everyone assumed Peter was going to become a brilliant surgeon.
00:33But there was just one problem.
00:34Peter was the dumbest student in his entire school.
00:37He failed almost every test.
00:38His classmates constantly made fun of him, and his teacher had completely lost patience.
00:42Almost every day, she would scream,
00:43Peter, you're driving me crazy!
00:45But when Peter's mother visited the school to ask about his progress, the teacher told her something heartbreaking.
00:49She said Peter was the most hopeless student she'd ever taught.
00:52And despite what his future photograph showed, she was convinced he would never become a doctor.
00:55His mother was devastated.
00:56So she immediately took Peter out of school, and they moved to another town.
01:00And just like that, Peter disappeared from his teacher's life.
01:02But 25 years later, something unbelievable happened.
01:05That same teacher was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition.
01:08The doctors told her she needed an extremely complicated surgery,
01:10and there was only one surgeon capable of saving her.
01:13With no other choice, she agreed.
01:14After several hours, the operation was finally successful.
01:16And when she slowly opened her eyes, she saw a handsome young doctor standing beside her bed, smiling.
01:21Suddenly, she remembered Peter's old photograph.
01:23The blue hospital clothes.
01:24The doctor.
01:24The patient.
01:25Could this actually be Peter?
01:26Had the boy she once called hopeless finally proved her wrong?
01:29Tears filled her eyes as she tried to thank the doctor.
01:31But suddenly, something went terribly wrong.
01:33She couldn't breathe.
01:33Her face slowly turned blue, and she desperately raised her hand, trying to tell the doctor something.
01:38But before she could, she died.
01:39The surgeon was completely shocked.
01:40The operation had gone perfectly.
01:42So how could his patient suddenly die?
01:43He quickly turned around to check the medical equipment.
01:45And that's when he noticed a man standing near the electrical outlet holding a vacuum cleaner.
01:49It was Peter.
01:49The same boy his patient had called hopeless 25 years ago.
01:52You see, Peter really had ended up working in a hospital.
01:55But he wasn't the surgeon.
01:56He wasn't even a doctor.
01:56He was the hospital cleaner.
01:58And while cleaning the room, he had accidentally unplugged the machine helping his former teacher breathe just to plug in
02:03his vacuum cleaner.
02:03In this world, there is only one rule for surviving in the Great Desert.
02:06If a stranger offers you water, say no.
02:08You see, the Great Desert is 900 miles of red sand.
02:11It hasn't rained here in 200 years.
02:13We live in cities carved into canyon walls, and we cross the dunes on sand ships.
02:17Wooden boats with giant sails that glide over the sand like it's water.
02:21Out here, water is worth more than gold.
02:22One cup costs a week of work.
02:24And the richest man in the desert is a water merchant named Crag.
02:27He owns 300 barrels.
02:28He has never given away a single drop.
02:30But the thing every kid has taught before they can walk is the strangers.
02:33They wander the dunes in perfectly clean white clothes.
02:35They never sweat, they never burn, and they always carry a jug of ice-cold water.
02:39They'll walk right up to you and smile and ask,
02:41Thirsty? And if you say yes and you drink, your eyes turn white.
02:44Your thirst never goes away, and you start walking the desert with a jug of your own.
02:48Forever. Unless you can get someone else to say yes.
02:50That's the only way out.
02:51That's how the strangers have survived for 300 years.
02:54Passing it on, one sip at a time.
02:55I'm 17. My little brother Milo is 9.
02:58Our family runs a sand ship, hauling water barrels between the canyon cities.
03:01Last month, Milo was so thirsty he begged Crag for one sip.
03:04Crag laughed in his face.
03:06Then, two weeks ago, a glass storm hit.
03:08Our ship flipped. Every barrel cracked.
03:10We were stranded, 60 miles from the nearest city.
03:12Day one, we split our last canteen.
03:14Day three, Milo stopped talking.
03:15Day six, I woke up, and there was a woman standing over him.
03:18White clothes, white smile, holding out a cup so cold it was dripping.
03:21Thirsty, sweetheart?
03:22I screamed, Milo, no!
03:23But he was already saying it.
03:24Yes.
03:25He drank, and the woman's eyes went from white to brown.
03:27She fell to her knees, sobbing, and said,
03:29I'm sorry, I've been out here 40 years.
03:31Then she ran off into the dunes.
03:32Free!
03:33I turned to Milo. His eyes were white.
03:35He stood up, picked up her jug, and smiled at me.
03:37Thirsty?
03:37And right then, I knew exactly what I had to do.
03:39I said, yes, I drank.
03:40And it was the worst thing I've ever felt.
03:42Ice-cold water.
03:43And somehow, I was thirstier than before.
03:45Milo blinked. His eyes went brown.
03:46Where am I?
03:47I pointed him toward the city and told him to run and never look back.
03:50Then I started walking.
03:51For three days, I walked, holding a jug full of water I could never drink.
03:54Until I saw a sand ship on the horizon.
03:56The biggest one in the desert.
03:57300 barrels.
03:58And standing on the deck, Crag.
03:59I walked right up to his ship and held up my jug.
04:02He looked down at me and sneered.
04:03I don't buy water, kid.
04:04I sell it.
04:05I smiled and said, who said anything about buying?
04:07It's free.
04:08His eyes lit up.
04:09The richest man in the desert had never said no to anything free in his life.
04:12Yes, he drank.
04:13His eyes turned white.
04:14Mine turned brown.
04:15And the next morning, I sailed his ship into the canyon cities and gave away all 300 barrels.
04:20Every single drop.
04:21Free.
04:22Crag, he's still out there.
04:23Every now and then, you'll see him on the dunes, holding out a jug.
04:25And everyone says, no.
04:27In this world, every person is made of something.
04:29Glass, rubber, stone, or paper.
04:31You see, whatever you're born as, you stay that way forever.
04:33Glass kids can't play tag.
04:35Rubber kids bounce off the walls at recess.
04:36Stone kids sink straight to the bottom of the pool, so they just walk across it.
04:39And paper kids?
04:40Paper kids never go outside in the rain.
04:42One drop and you go soft.
04:43Get soaked and you fall apart.
04:44I'm paper, the weakest thing you can be.
04:46I'm so light, a strong wind blows me into the neighbor's yard.
04:49I can't even carry my own backpack.
04:50But there's one thing paper can do.
04:52Slide.
04:52If a door's locked, I just slip right under it.
04:54The janitor hates me.
04:55And then there's Brick.
04:56Brick is stone, the biggest kid in my grade.
04:58He folds me up and sticks me in his back pocket.
05:00He uses me as a coaster at lunch.
05:01And he calls me Napkin.
05:02Everyone calls me Napkin now.
05:03Until one afternoon, the sky turned black.
05:05And it started to pour.
05:06Everyone crowded inside the school doors, waiting for their parents.
05:09Brick's mom had already picked him up.
05:11Then, her tires slid.
05:12The car spun off the road and rolled straight into the river.
05:14It started sinking, fast.
05:15Brick was trapped inside.
05:17His seatbelt was jammed, and the water was up to his chest.
05:19His mom was on the bank, screaming.
05:20A glass teacher ran out and punched the window.
05:22His hand cracked.
05:23A rubber coach tried prying the door.
05:25He bounced ten feet back.
05:26Then I saw it.
05:27The back window was open.
05:28Just a crack.
05:29One inch.
05:29Too small for anyone.
05:30Anyone except me.
05:31I looked down at the rain.
05:32I looked at Brick.
05:32And I ran out the door.
05:33The first drop hit my arm, and it went soft.
05:35My legs got heavy.
05:36My shirt started to tear.
05:37But I kept running.
05:38I jumped onto the roof of the car, flattened myself, and slid through the crack.
05:41I squeezed down to his seatbelt, grabbed the buckle, and pulled.
05:44Click!
05:44Brick was free.
05:45He grabbed me, shoved me inside his shirt, and kicked the door open.
05:48Then he did the one thing stone can do.
05:50He sank to the bottom of the river and walked, step by step, across the bottom, all the way
05:54up the bank.
05:54When he climbed out, the whole school was standing in the rain, staring.
05:57He reached into his shirt and pulled me out, soaked, wrinkled, barely holding together,
06:00but in one piece.
06:01Nobody called me napkin again.
06:03And now, every single time it rains, Brick holds the umbrella over me.
06:06In this world, nobody is allowed to walk barefoot.
06:08They say if bare skin touches earth or stone, something underneath hears you.
06:11Then it pulls you down.
06:12Babies wear boots over their pajamas.
06:14Swimming pools are completely banned.
06:15Every house has spare shoes beside the bed.
06:17In the town square, a circle of black stones is surrounded by an iron fence.
06:20Nothing grows there.
06:20We moved here last week.
06:21Nobody warned us.
06:22On our first night, my dog escaped through the front door.
06:24I chased him outside without putting my shoes on.
06:25The moment my feet touched the pavement, every dog on the street stopped barking.
06:28Then three knocks sounded beneath my heel.
06:30I stepped backward.
06:31Footsteps beneath the pavement followed mine.
06:32I stopped.
06:32It stopped.
06:33Then the concrete between my feet began to rise.
06:35Long fingers pressed upward from underneath, stretching the road like a thin blanket.
06:38I jumped onto our wooden porch step and slammed the door.
06:40Something scratched beneath our house all night.
06:42The next day, people surrounded our yard.
06:43They carried boots, rolls of carpet, and buckets of wet cement.
06:45The mayor pushed through them.
06:46He let it hear him.
06:47It wants the boy.
06:48Give him to it and our families will be safe.
06:49Mom tried shutting the door.
06:50Two guards stopped her.
06:51They took me to the square and unlocked the fence around the black stones.
06:53He pointed inside.
06:54Take his shoes off.
06:55They pushed me into the circle and locked the gate.
06:56My feet touched stone.
06:57Hundreds of voices whispered underneath.
06:58The crowd backed away.
06:59A crack opened across the circle.
07:01Something climbed out.
07:01It was made of hacked earth and broken bricks.
07:03Rusted nails stuck out of its shoulders.
07:04Beneath its chest, pale faces moved behind a cage of stone ribs.
07:07It reached toward me.
07:08I backed against the fence.
07:09Its enormous hand stopped beside my face.
07:11From inside its chest, somebody whispered,
07:12Please.
07:12So I touched its hand.
07:13The square disappeared.
07:14For a second, I stood in a tunnel beneath town.
07:16Workers crowded below a closed hatch.
07:17Water rose around their knees.
07:19Above them, a man stood beside the lid.
07:20The mayor, younger.
07:21The same face.
07:21Open it!
07:22Somebody screamed.
07:22He stepped away.
07:23He ordered a machine to pour concrete over the hatch.
07:25Then I was back in the square.
07:25It lowered its hand.
07:26A voice rumbled through the stones beneath my feet.
07:28Now you heard us.
07:29The mayor stared at our touching hands.
07:30Get him out of there!
07:33One guard opened the fence.
07:34Another lifted a bucket of cement.
07:35The creature stamped its foot.
07:36Every paving stone in the square rose an inch.
07:38The guards stumbled.
07:39The ground split between them.
07:40Not a hole.
07:40A staircase leading down.
07:41Cold air rushed up from underneath the town.
07:43And with it came the knocking.
07:44Hundreds of hands.
07:45The crowd went silent.
07:46I looked at the mayor.
07:46You said it takes people underground.
07:48He backed toward the town hall.
07:49You don't understand.
07:49I stepped out of the circle.
07:50The creature followed.
07:51You put him there.
07:51The mayor pointed at it.
07:52Look at that thing.
07:53You want that walking through your houses?
07:54An old woman near the fence dropped her bag.
07:56She stared at a face inside its chest.
07:57Daniel?
07:58The face turned.
07:58My husband.
07:59You said he left.
07:59More people stepped forward.
08:00A woman recognized her father.
08:01A man called out his brother's name.
08:03The mayor reached the town hall door.
08:04Locked.
08:04He searched his pockets, dropping his keys twice.
08:06The creature stopped behind him.
08:07Its stone ribs opened.
08:08He turned around.
08:09No, please!
08:09From inside, the voices answered together.
08:11We said that too.
08:12A hand reached out and caught his wrist.
08:13The creature pulled him into its chest.
08:14The ribs closed.
08:15Then it walked down the staircase.
08:16The black stones settled behind it.
08:18For a moment, nobody spoke.
08:19The old woman sat down beside the circle and took off her shoes.
08:21She placed her feet against the stone.
08:22Her eyes filled with tears.
08:23He can hear me.
08:24That night, people came to the square carrying chairs, flowers, and photographs.
08:27They sat barefoot around the stones and talked until sunrise.
08:29Now, nobody covers the ground with cement anymore.
08:31And when I walk home after dark, I sometimes hear footsteps beneath mine.
08:34They always stop at my front door.
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08:36Or listen beneath your feet tonight.
08:38In this town, every person has a glowing string tied to the person they love most.
08:41You see, the second you're born, a string comes out of your chest and connects to whoever you love most
08:45in the world.
08:46And it never lies.
08:47Moms are tied to their babies.
08:48Old couples are tied to each other.
08:49My neighbor's string goes straight to his dog.
08:51But my string was weird.
08:52It didn't go to my mom.
08:53It didn't go to my dad.
08:54It went out my window, over the fence, and deep into the woods behind the vain mansion, where nobody's allowed
08:58to go.
08:59It's probably broken, my mom said, but I could feel it.
09:01Every night, the string would tug, just a little, like somebody was pulling back.
09:04So one night, I followed it, over the fence, through the trees, right up to the back of the mansion.
09:08And it went through a window, on the very top floor.
09:10I climbed the ivy and looked inside.
09:12There was a boy sitting on the bed.
09:13Same shirt, same hair, same everything.
09:15He looked exactly like me.
09:16And coming out of his chest was a string, tied to mine.
09:19Who are you?
09:19I whispered.
09:20I'm Eli, he said.
09:21I've been pulling on this string my whole life.
09:22I thought nobody was ever going to come.
09:24Eli told me everything.
09:25Mrs. Vane, the richest woman in town, always wanted a son.
09:27So the night we were born, she paid the doctor to tell my parents one of their twins didn't make
09:31it.
09:31And she took Eli home.
09:32Come with me, I said.
09:33Right now.
09:33But the door slammed open.
09:35Mrs. Vane, in her bathrobe, with two guards.
09:37Get that boy out of my house!
09:38He's my brother!
09:39He's my son!
09:40She snapped.
09:41I've raised him for ten years, and nobody in this town will believe a word you say!
09:44And she was right, unless they could see it.
09:46I grabbed Eli's hand, and we ran.
09:47Down the stairs, out the front door, straight into town.
09:50And by the time we got to the town square, everyone was out of their houses, staring at us.
09:53Two boys, exactly the same, tied together by one glowing string.
09:57Mrs. Vane came storming down the street.
09:59That boy belongs to me!
10:00Then why isn't his string tied to you?
10:02I said.
10:02Everyone looked at her chest.
10:03Her string was there, glowing, stretching all the way back to her mansion.
10:06Back to her giant safe full of gold.
10:08And then my mom pushed through the crowd.
10:10She took one look at Eli, and something happened that nobody in town had ever seen before.
10:13A brand new string shot out of her chest, straight to Eli.
10:16Because strings never lie.
10:18Eli lives with us now, in my room, in the bed right next to mine.
10:21And every night, before we fall asleep, he still tugs on the string, just to make sure I'm still there.
10:25In this world, everyone is born with a mute button.
10:27Press it, and you can't hear anyone for one hour.
10:29Total silence.
10:30Your choice.
10:31People use it on airplanes, group projects, and their siblings.
10:33A kid named Liam used his constantly.
10:35He muted his entire family reunion.
10:37He muted a fire drill and had to be carried out.
10:39He muted so much of seventh grade, his friend Marcus started communicating through notes.
10:42Marcus wrote, you've muted me 11 times this month.
10:45Liam said, that's a lot of writing for someone who could just say less.
10:48Then one afternoon, Liam found an old video on his mom's phone.
10:51It was his little sister at four years old, standing in the living room, singing.
10:54Badly, loudly, for about six minutes straight.
10:56He didn't remember it at all.
10:57He asked his mom when that happened.
10:59She said, she did that every night for a year, right after dinner, same spot.
11:02Liam said, every night?
11:03She said, you were always sitting right there.
11:05He'd been muted for all of it.
11:07He asked if she still does it.
11:08His mom said, she stopped when she was six.
11:10She said nobody was listening.
11:11Liam hasn't pressed it since.
11:12Marcus still writes him notes.
11:14In this world, when your parents say, you're grounded, you're really grounded.
11:17Your feet stick to the floor right where you're standing.
11:19And they stay stuck until your parents say you're not.
11:21It even works over the phone.
11:22Moms here can ground you from work.
11:24So nobody here misbehaves in the bathroom, ever.
11:26My cousin got grounded at the top of the slide.
11:28He was up there for a week.
11:29They fed him with a fishing pole.
11:30And my Uncle Ray got grounded at the bus stop in 1996.
11:33Grandma forgot to unground him.
11:35He's still there.
11:35People think he works there.
11:36He gives great directions.
11:37Me?
11:38I'm Eli.
11:38The most grounded kid in history.
11:402,000 times.
11:41A new record every year.
11:42So I've learned to do everything without moving my feet.
11:44I can make a sandwich from across the kitchen.
11:45I can lean so far I'm basically a ram.
11:47I once won a basketball game standing in one spot.
11:49My mom says I should be proud.
11:51Then she grounded me for saying, obviously.
11:53Then came the town picnic.
11:54The whole town was at the park.
11:55And the sky turned green.
11:57A tornado came straight through the picnic.
11:58Blankets flew.
11:59Then hot dogs.
12:00Then the grill.
12:01Then the people.
12:01The mayor went up holding a watermelon.
12:03A cow flew by.
12:04Nobody knows whose cow it was.
12:05And my feet started leaving the ground too.
12:07Then my mom flew right past me.
12:08Holding the potato salad.
12:09Mom!
12:10I yelled.
12:11Ground me!
12:11For what?
12:12Anything!
12:13You're grounded for yelling at your mother.
12:14My feet slammed into the grass.
12:16Stuck.
12:16Nothing in the world can move a grounded kid.
12:18I grabbed my mom's ankle.
12:19She grabbed my dad.
12:20My dad grabbed my little sister.
12:22My sister grabbed the mayor.
12:23The mayor grabbed the cow.
12:24Then everyone in the park grabbed onto everyone.
12:26The whole town holding onto one grounded kid.
12:28We flapped in the wind like a giant flag.
12:30For 11 minutes.
12:31My arms were burning.
12:32But I'd been grounded 2,000 times.
12:34I could do this.
12:34Then the tornado gave up and left.
12:36Everybody dropped into one big pile on the grass.
12:38The cow landed last.
12:39On the mayor.
12:40Nobody got hurt.
12:41Except the potato salad.
12:42My mom hugged me so hard.
12:43You're not grounded!
12:44Actually, I said.
12:45Can I stay grounded a little longer?
12:46Just in case?
12:47That night we drove past the bus stop.
12:49The tornado took the bench.
12:50The sign.
12:50The whole shelter.
12:51Uncle Ray was still standing there.
12:52The bus stopped for him anyway.
12:53In this world, the sun makes sure every person is out of bed by 6 a.m.
12:57You see, every morning, it floats down and stops at every window.
13:00If you're up, it pours you a glass of orange juice.
13:02Warm.
13:02Glowing.
13:03But if you're still in bed, a beam pulls you up to the sun planet.
13:05Where you run on a giant wheel.
13:07Because every step charges the sun's generator.
13:09So nobody here sleeps in.
13:10Ever.
13:10But this year, the sun got dimmer.
13:12And the people it took stopped coming back.
13:13My dad drives the night bus.
13:15He gets home at 5.55 every morning.
13:17Until one morning, his bus broke down.
13:18He ran in at 6 o'clock and fell onto his bed.
13:20The room went bright.
13:21And the beam pulled him out the window.
13:22He didn't come back.
13:23But I had noticed something.
13:24At recess, the sun glows brighter right over our game of tag.
13:27It charges from anyone moving under it.
13:28So I told my best friend Leo,
13:30Tomorrow at 6, get everyone outside.
13:32And make them move.
13:32That night, I didn't set an alarm.
13:34And I let the beam take me.
13:35The sun planet was thousands of wheels.
13:37And the generator in the middle was almost empty.
13:38It dropped me in a wheel, right next to my dad.
13:40Buddy, you shouldn't be here.
13:41Dad, look down.
13:42Under our feet, way below, the whole town was outside.
13:45Running laps, pushing grandpas in wheelbarrows.
13:47So I ran.
13:48Harder than ever.
13:48The bar climbed.
13:49Half.
13:50Almost full.
13:51The beam dropped all of us home.
13:52The next morning, every window in town was empty.
13:54Because everyone was already outside.
13:56Moving.
13:56And the sun poured my dad the biggest glass of orange juice in town.
13:59In this world, when a giant red eye wakes up in the middle of the city,
14:03You can't move.
14:04Not a step.
14:04Not a breath.
14:05Not even your eyes.
14:06Because when the eye opens and looks around,
14:07It senses the smallest movement.
14:09Like playing green light, red light.
14:10And if it catches you, it pulls you inside.
14:12And something bad happens with you.
14:14And every time it takes someone, the eye grows bigger.
14:16Two years ago, it took our mayor.
14:18He froze in place.
14:19But a bee sting him.
14:20He started screaming.
14:21And when he realized, it was too late.
14:22The eye doubled in size.
14:23Two days later, he was found in the forest without any memory of who he is.
14:27And he didn't even recognize his own wife.
14:28A month ago, it took my dog.
14:30The happiest dog I've ever known.
14:31After that, he started meowing.
14:33After that, the eye grew tiny hands.
14:35And nobody knows what it wants to do with them.
14:36Since then, the town had been scared.
14:38People stopped walking in the park.
14:39Kids stopped playing outside.
14:41And every night, the statue made a low, strange sound.
14:43Like a heartbeat.
14:44Like it was getting ready.
14:45But when it sleeps, it looks like a harmless stone statue.
14:48Kids climb on it.
14:48Tourists take photos.
14:49This week, my girlfriend came to our town for the first time.
14:52And I never told her the rule.
14:53I didn't want to scare her.
14:54I told myself the eye wouldn't wake up for weeks.
14:56That we had time.
14:57The first day, she loved everything.
14:58The streets, the food, the people.
15:00On the second day, she asked about the statue.
15:02Why does everyone avoid that park?
15:03I lied.
15:04It's just old and boring.
15:05She smiled.
15:05Then we have to see it.
15:06So we went.
15:07When the eye sleeps, it's just a stone statue.
15:09She laughed and said she had never seen one like it.
15:11She started taking photos.
15:12Then a selfie.
15:13And I froze.
15:13The statue's surface began to crack.
15:15The heartbeat sound got louder.
15:16The eye was waking up.
15:17I stopped moving.
15:18I stopped breathing.
15:19I didn't even blink.
15:20Everyone in the park did the same.
15:21Dozens of people.
15:22Frozen like statues.
15:23A man holding a child.
15:24An old woman halfway through a step.
15:26My girlfriend didn't understand.
15:27What's wrong with you?
15:28She looked at me.
15:28Then at the others.
15:29Why is nobody moving?
15:30I wanted to scream.
15:31But I couldn't make a sound.
15:32Tears ran down my face.
15:33She grabbed my arm and shook me.
15:35Please, say something!
15:36The old woman's eyes met mine.
15:38She was begging me silently.
15:39Don't move.
15:40Then the eye opened.
15:41Red.
15:42Huge.
15:42Staring.
15:43It scanned the park.
15:44Slowly.
15:44Left.
15:45Right.
15:45And it found the only person who was moving.
15:47My girlfriend.
15:48A golden beam shot out of the eye.
15:49It hit her right in the face.
15:51Her eyes went blank.
15:52And the eye started sucking her memories away.
15:53She slowly floated toward it.
15:55I saw our whole life flash in the beam.
15:57Our first date.
15:58Our first trip.
15:58Her laugh.
15:59Pieces of her memories flying into the eye.
16:01I couldn't let it happen.
16:02I broke the rule.
16:02I moved.
16:03I grabbed the nearest branch and threw it straight into the middle of the eye.
16:06It hit.
16:06The beam vanished.
16:07The eye slammed shut in pain.
16:09My girlfriend dropped to the ground, breathing.
16:11The eye couldn't take anyone else.
16:12It was still busy with her.
16:13That's when everyone understood.
16:15The eye could only catch one person at a time.
16:17Then someone behind me threw a rock.
16:18Then another.
16:19Then everyone.
16:20The whole town started throwing stones.
16:21The eye began to tremble.
16:23Cracks ran across its surface.
16:24And it exploded.
16:25Light flooded the city.
16:26And in that moment, every person who had ever lost their memories to the eye suddenly remembered
16:30everything.
16:31My girlfriend opened her eyes and slapped me.
16:33You were crying louder when you lost your dog.
16:35I'm breaking up with you.
16:36In this world, every person has a counter above their head showing the distance from the person
16:39who will kill them.
16:40A woman had 100 meters above her head because five seconds later, some guy hit her with a
16:44car while she was crossing the street.
16:46An old man had 10 meters above his head because his grandson hit under the bed.
16:49Five minutes later, he scared him and the grandpa had a heart attack.
16:52And whenever someone is safe, the counter shows nothing.
16:53One day when Dante was at school, five kilometers suddenly appeared above his head.
16:57He got scared and called his mom.
16:58She told him to immediately take a taxi home and lock the door.
17:01As he got into the taxi, the distance started increasing.
17:03But this is where things got darker.
17:04His mom called him and told him she was on her way home from work and would be back in
17:07a few minutes.
17:08From that moment, the distance started getting shorter and shorter.
17:11The closer his mom was, the shorter was distance.
17:13Fifteen minutes later, his mom parked in front of the house and the counter showed 50 meters.
17:16He froze.
17:17She walked into the house, but the counter still showed 50 meters.
17:20He felt relieved because he thought it just a glitched.
17:21So he went to bed.
17:22But in the middle of the night, while he was sleeping, the distance started getting shorter
17:25again.
17:26Someone had been hiding in the trunk of his mom's car the whole time.
17:29He finally got out and started walking toward the house.