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Claire had places to be and too many things to do. But what else was new for the mother of three. But then she started to noticed something…wrong. It started with the radio. First the music started to glitch and distort, then she must have jumped station’s somehow cause it sounded like some kind of kids bop cover of the same song (but what were the odds of that?) and eventually it just devolved into twinkling lullaby music. Then it almost sounded like some kind of public service announcement was about to start but then the signal cut out all together and the radio went quiet.
In that new quiet Claire noticed another sound. A sort of humming, like a high-pitched noise was growing closer. And the air outside seemed to shimmer like a mirage. But she knew for a fact that it wasn’t hot enough to cause it. Let alone that close to the car. And that’s when she saw something big, if it could even be called a thing.
It was more like a pulse. A storm without clouds, a tidal wave without water, an inferno without flames. And she was driving headlong towards it as it barreled towards her just as fast. She watched in horror as it passed over the world and changed it. People dropped down on their butts, shapes and colors were starting to shift and some things seemed to disappear.
She tried to swerve to avoid it but it was too late. The steering wheel felt wrong in her hands. Like some kind of plastic approximation of a steering wheel. Claire forced her eyes shut before she hit the ripple and felt her insides do summersaults when it did. It didn’t hurt despite how much she expected it to, despite how much everything was…wiggling. Her eyes were still closed so couldn’t see what was happening but she could feel her clothes breaking away like they were disintegrating without burning. But then they quickly reformed into something new, thinner in some places but somehow thicker in others.
And just like that it was done, almost as fast as it came. No, faster even. From what she could hear it was almost as if there never was a wave sweeping across town tearing up whatever was in its wake. But her heart was still racing and she maybe probably definitely might have peed herself.
When she opened her eyes Claire was looking down. She saw her bare feet on the end of bare legs resting on a set of pedals in a red compartment. The only thing she wore below her waist was a diaper decorated in kids show characters as well as numbers and letters that were quickly fading as a warm wet feeling spread between her legs. The only other thing she wore at all was a pink and white striped shirt with a tiara on the chest. Somehow she also knew she had a pink hair clip in her hair too. It didn’t take much else to prove that she was in one of those plastic pedal cars for kids, but one much larger than normal (the little horn made a squeaky sound and everything). That’s when she looked outside her kiddy vehicle and realized where she was.
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