"Anyways", the guy's voice mellowed which creeped me even more,"Apeisynthecoid essentially spreads across the width and breadth of Zuschter. But it's not only limited to Zuschter."
"Then?"
"Actually, every other city in the world is covered by Apeisynthecoids. And in turn, these Apeisynthecoids are connected to each other".
He pulls out a remote from his pocket and zooms in on the map. We now see a lane with a few people walking. But the limbs of the Apeisynthecoid had passed through their all their foreheads.
"What the fuck is this?"
"The legs or the tentacles of Apeisynthecoid are called 'fate' , that is, they are the strings joined to you human beings, who are essentially puppets. Not only thorough the forehead, you can see them thin tentacles passing though their whole body".
Upon looking closely, we did see it.
"They are the future strings which will come up to the forehead."
"You mean everyone's connected by the limbs of the organism".
"Everyone's connected by the fate," the guy said and winked. Every member of the office winked at the same time. The guy continued speaking.
"We, all are connected by the fate of the Apeisynthecoid of our cities, which is in turn dependent on the larger Apeisynthecoids of the countries and then the continents, planets and so on and so forth".
"So, you say Apeisynthecoids can be as large as planet?"
"They don't have any boundaries or length. It was essentially a metaphorical organism to explain my philosophy of fate and how our future is already written. But now it's coming to be physical in form".
"What do you mean?"
"Have you heard of how most of the people in Zuschter are getting severe headaches?"
We nodded our head.
"Zuschter's Apeisynthecoid is materialising into a proper organism. So, that's why people are now starting to feel the limbs in their body".
"Is it somehow connected to Mr. Hayato's death?"
All the office members take a big sigh at the same time.
"Mr. Hayato was one for the first people to become aware of the limbs of Apeisynthecoid passing through his forehead. And over years, he would even come close to feeling the tentacles through his entire body. The problem with that is that the limbs and the tentacles determine your future. So, all the places that you will go or do has already been mapped out by the limbs and the tentacles passing through you. Mr. Hayato could feel the limbs and tentacles to know of his future".
"So, that's why he died?"
"Well, the problem was with being more aware. The more you think, the more you will be aware of the limbs. And since there are like infinite limbs of Apeisynthecoid and each limbs has infinite tentacles, which eventually pass through you, becoming aware of them only leads to them being real."
"So, it means that there is a fully formed visible limb of the Apeisynthecoid somewhere in the city".
"Yes, the limb passing through his forehead. And it's covered with blood of Mr. Hayato."
We both kept silence. I am still amazed to this date, how did we manage nodding our heads and asking questions to that story. And we did question. I mean, I questioned it.
"How do we believe on all of this?", I asked.
They kept silence until one moment when everyone burst out talking to each other randomly.
"What the hell is happening?", Sam enquired.
"Maybe he is thinking vigorously with all the implications and possibilities".
The guy ran around while all others engaged in deep discussions(or most accurately arguments).
"What's that old guy doing?", Sam pointed out. An old man lay on the floor, not talking to anyone, and tried to swim through the floor.
"Is it... I can't think of anything".
"Is it his deeper subconscious? I mean we are never really fully focused on one thing", this statement by Sam really intrigued me.
Then all of a sudden, everyone became silent and stood upright and still. The old man still tried to swim from one desk to another.
"Okay", the guy again came,"Let's show you guys, then".
He began typing something on the computer connected to the white screen.
"Well Mr. XY, we are actually journalists..."
"I know."
"Oh! You knew? That's so…sweet".
'That's so…creepy', I thought it my head.
"So, we had some questions", I answered.
"You can ask then now. What would you start?"
"Okay, but first of all, why the body of this lanky guy?"
"He's not that greatly lean actually. I can clearly see him growing up into a fat, abusive father who then has a child with his stepdaughter".
Fuck. I thought to myself. We were so shocked that this Mr. XY can joke as well, that we couldn't appreciate the joke itself.
"Let's follow this receptionist from where you were staying", the guy said.
He pulled a video of the receptionist in a supermarket. A slightly pink limb had passed though her head.
"This is live by the way. Everyone else's limbs have been removed so that we can focus on her more".
She moved around the supermarket, looking at the eatables kept on the stands. She wore a pink skirt and push up bra and looked extremely bangable. Except the long, translucent limb that passed through her hand and the numerous thin tentacles than went right through every part of her body.
"As you can see, the limb through her head has already taken a route towards the food mart. So, she will definitely end up at food court".
She walked around till she came to the cross roads were she had four options: ethnic wear section, toys section/kids section, food mart or the one before her. She stood there for a minute contemplating on her choices and then took the way leading to the food mart.
As she reached the food mart, one of the thin tentacles passing through her ribs came up-to her head, replacing that other limb.