I CARRY THE WEIGHT OF A MID-WEIGHT HUMAN. TODAY I AM IN THE CORNER. SEVERAL OF MY COMRADES HAVE FOUND REFUGE IN FAR END OF THE ROOM, AWKWARDLY POSITIONED SO THAT I DO NOT EXPECT THEM TO BE CARRYING ANYONE TODAY.

EACH TIME THE HUMANS ENTER THE ROOM WE ANXIOUSLY AWAIT WHICH FORMATION WE WILL TAKE, AND WHO WILL NEED TO CARRY THE WEIGHT. SOMETIMES ONLY FEW OF US ARE TAKEN, WHILE OTHER TIMES THE ROOM IS FLOODED WITH HEAVY LUMPS OF FLESH LOUSILY SLUMPED OVER OUR BACKS.

I FEEL MY BENT BODY REGAIN ITS RIGID SHAPE AS THE WEIGHT AND THE PLASTIC GARMENT IS LIFTED FROM ME. I STAND FREE. THE HUMAN LUMP SCRAMBLES TOGETHER THE ITEMS IT CARRIED INSIDE THE ROOM AND BEGIN TO POSITION ITS FLESHY EXTENSIONS ONE IN FRONT OF THE OTHER TO MAKE ITS WAY ACROSS THE ROOM TO THE OTHER SIDE. THE LONG HEAVY SLABS BEND IN THE MIDDLE AND TAKE TURNS BEING SWUNG FORWARD, JUST ABOVE THE FLOOR. HAVING REACHED THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM, THE TOP EXTENSIONS OF THE HUMANS LOSE ALL RIGIDITY, DROPPING ALL THE ITEMS IT WAS CARRYING. THE BOTTOM FLESHY EXTENSIONS COLLAPSE AND DROP THE LARGE LUMP FROM WHICH TWO MORE EXTENSIONS AWKWARDLY PROTRUDE ONTO THE TREMBLING LEGS OF ONE OF MY COMRADES.

SIMULTANEOUSLY ALL THE OTHER HUMANS IN THE ROOM HAD BEEN LIFTED UPWARDS BY THEIR EXTENSIONS AND PERFORMED A SIMILAR MOVEMENT FROM ONE COMRADE TO ANOTHER. SOME OF THEM SPARED, OTHERS RUDELY DRAGGED ACROSS THE ROOM AND POSITIONED UNDER A TABLE, LIKE THE REST OF US.

AS I TAKE THIS ALL IN I FEEL AS MY BODY AGAIN IS BENT UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ANOTHER GROSS LUMP. THE MILD HUMID COMPLEXION OF THEIR BODIES, AND THE AGITATING BRISK DISTURBANCE OF THEIR EVER-SHIFTING FLESH MAKES US LOATHE THESE BRIEF PERIODS IN WHICH THEY USE US TO CARRY THEIR WEIGHT EVER MORE.

FINALLY, AFTER THE LUMPS HAD SHIFTED THEMSELVES AROUND THE ROOM SEVERAL TIMES MORE, AND DRAGGED AND ABUSED OUR DEFENSELESS BODIES, THEY UNANIMOUSLY GATHERED THEIR THINGS STUMBLES OUT OF THE ROOM.

THE LIGHTS TURNED, THE ROOM REGAINS ITS PEACE, AND MY COMRADES STAND IN SILENCE. ONLY THE VAGUE UTTERANCES FROM THE HALLWAY, AND THE UNINTELLIGIBLE NOISE FROM THE STREET ABOVE REVEAL THE ONGOING MOVEMENT OF THESE ABOMINABLE BEINGS. WE REEXAMINE OUR CURRENT POSITION AND BEGIN OUR WAIT AGAIN.