Song's dream idea for Eli
This dream starts out with Eli finding a huge dead grasshopper. Not just one limp corpse, but body parts strewn across the darkened floor in a trail, first a long leg, then a wing, and so on. Subconscious forewarning settles over the scene, that uncanny knowledge that something horrible and unavoidable is ahead.
The pieces of the insect get larger as the trail progresses. Larger than a grasshopper should be. Bigger and bigger as if Eli is the one shrinking while he follows them, only then they start to change.
A spindly leg ends in a human hand. A sliver of carapace with a few strands of hair attached. A wing spattered with blood. The sense of suspense and foreboding becomes almost unbearably heavy, and at the end of the hall lies the corpse's head, not insect at all but human and very, very familiar -
The pieces of the insect get larger as the trail progresses. Larger than a grasshopper should be. Bigger and bigger as if Eli is the one shrinking while he follows them, only then they start to change.
A spindly leg ends in a human hand. A sliver of carapace with a few strands of hair attached. A wing spattered with blood. The sense of suspense and foreboding becomes almost unbearably heavy, and at the end of the hall lies the corpse's head, not insect at all but human and very, very familiar -