The candy in his hand was a deep dark purple, almost black, and the sun reflecting off its surface gave off a hue of hidden color, reminding him of a petrol slick on a puddle. "Hopefully it's blackcurrant" he thought, as he popped the candy into his mouth and began to chew.
The smell of burnt sugar filled his nostrils, and had a head-clearing and crystallizing effect on his vision and senses. Checking the bottle as he continued to chew, Mark was half expecting to find out that the candy was cough medicine of some sort. As he rolled the bottle over in his hand, he caught sight of the skin on the back of his hand, which seemed to be a lot darker than he remembered it. "Hmmm, I must have got a tan" Mark mused to himself, but before he had even finished this thought he noticed little black bumps appearing, as if bubbling to the surface. They looked hard however, completely unlike the surrounding skin, and had the same diesel-like color spectrum as the candy. This became more noticeable as Mark tilted his hand forward and backwards in front of him, and he noticed his body hairs fall out as the scales reached them. His inspection was interrupted as the bench beneath him suddenly gave way, and in his shock Mark swallowed the candy in his mouth...
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