"T-Tahoe. I was...I've been living here because there were rumors about...about things in the woods and I thought maybe there was something like Them but then two days ago I woke up and I was lying in the middle of the road and a car almost ran me over and then last night I woke up curled so close to my space heater that I almost burned myself and there were skins like I shed and--"
Pause. Breathe.
"Please, I don't know what to do, I can't trust anyone, my parents would just lock me up 'for my own good' but then what would happen to me when I actually turned into a lizard in a fucking asylum--!"