Someone started screaming, I guess it was me. My feet had gone numb the moment that goop slopped over my shoes. An electrical shock traveled up my legs and they too went numb I tried to turn but I could only move from my waist up and the screams grew both louder and yet more remote as I looked down where my feet had been! It was like I was the witch in The Wizard of Oz - I was dissolving! the goop was now up to my knees or rather I was more than a foot shorter than I had been this morning. Still screaming, I turned my eyes toward Grace / Garret. No help there. Her eyes were as big as saucers as if she were nearly as afraid as I was. Just then my upper torso went numb.
I heard her, Grace that is, say, "Boss?"
And from behind me a male voice replied, "You owe us big time Garret. Next time... there's no next time... Understand?"
I didn't hear Grace reply. In fact, I lost interest in the continuing dialogue for some reason. The goop appeared to leap into the air but it was only me starting to fall face forward into it as I began losing all muscle control. Consciousness squished out of me like I'd been stepped on by a mammoth wearing iron booties!
Oblivion!