I sit back on a nearby park bench and just stop and take a look at all the headless people walking around, curious about how they are able to move or live their lives out like normal people. It really got me thinking about how this town could be conceived at all.
Suddenly, from right behind, a female headless body comes around the bench and sits down right next to me, keeping a fair distance but still relatively close.
The body then waves to me politely, to which I say, "Uh... hi?"
She then holds up a finger as if to say 'wait a moment', then pulls out a phone and types something into it. She then turns their phone to me to show what they wrote.
"So, new to this town?"
I hesitate to think of what to say, given how I'm actually talking to a headless person. "Um... yeah. I was just interested in seeing how all this worked."
The body then shakes up and down a bit, presumably laughing without being able to make a sound, then write another message. "Yeah, we found out a while ago that we don't actually need to have heads connected to bodies to be able to go on about our lives and so, we have a bit of a mix-matched town."
This raised a couple of curious questions. "Then, how do you eat? Or drink? Or breathe?"
The body types something once again. "Don't need to. I'm not sure how, it's certainly a mysterious ability to go for extensively long without sustenance. I'd assume that headless powers magically compensate for it."
"Haha, yeah. So, how does one simply just... BECOME headless around here?"
Once again, she types. "Oh, so many different ways. Most of us usually just yank off our heads upwards and just go along like that, you know, like changing out clothes. But sometimes we like to go for more novel types of detachment, like getting it chopped off, slapped off, twisted off, peeled off, you name it. My friend even tried out one time, to see if she can let the air density lift her head off underwater. That's got to be the most creative idea I've seen yet."
"Did you want to see a headless neck stump? I can show it to you."
I've been trying to ignore the neck stumps, trying to respect privacy, but now that I'm being asked, I'm interested to look now. I observe, her neck stump is covered in a smooth skin line with a slight curved rim. It's almost like she never had a head in the first place.
"Wow, that's actually really cool!"
"You think so? That's great! I'd let you feel it, but it can be rather ticklish. Plus, it looks a little weird to a bunch of other people to see someone rubbing a different neck stump. Maybe you should try out removing your head!"
I consider it for a moment. I do like the idea of being headless, but I don't live here. Would that impact some factors over whether or not it will actually be harmless?
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