The scene was nothing short of amazing and the ft plot of grassnd under a plethora of stars took his breath away.

  This pce was practically looking completely empty save for what appears to be the shadow of a single tree at the far end of his sight, Bryan spent a minute or so standing there looking up admiring the countless diamond-like stars on this cloudless night sky.

  His brain was numbed trying to make sense of this situation and kept failing every single time because right in front of him there was this fantastic and unrealistic phenomena, while behind him was this portal which he instinctively realized that he can just take a step through it to go back to the material world.

  "This is nuts!" He said while leaning forward and squinting his eyes to get a better look through the swirling haze of the portal.

  Bryan could vaguely see distorted images of his own bathroom on the other side but despite wanting to experiment actually passing through it he decided not to do so yet because he was curious about this pce itself.

  "I don't know if it's safe around here." He muttered while looking around but even when his eyes adjusted to the dim light cast upon this grassnd by the twinkling stars above Bryan could barely see well within a few meters.

  Meanwhile the tree is probably a hundred meters away from the portal.

  He understands that his current state is not optimum and he basically doesn't have anything to protect himself in case he need to but this situation somehow sparked this sense of adventure-seeking deep down within him, Bryan lowered his center of gravity and slowly started to move as quietly as possible towards his goal.

  His senses were heightened to the maximum and his racing heart started to give him trouble hearing perfectly but Bryan did his best to get it back under control by breathing slowly and quietly in long extended turns of drawing air in then out.

  He was so focused on the task that he didn't even notice the fine dust-like glittering particles which entered his system and never left whenever he exhaled.

  Bryan was so immersed in the task of being sneaky while everything was getting distributed throughout his bloodstream.

  Earlier when he opened his eyes his body was drenched in sweat which left him quite dehydrated however, once these particles fused with the different cells in his body through the blood another change happened.

  These particles started to actively attack and deconstruct the very fabric of the different muscle tissue!

  Bryan only started to realize that something was going on in his body once he felt his chest being stuffy and his body feeling massively burden by this massive weight of weakness which kept getting heavier and heavier at such an arming rate.

  Looking backwards towards the portal he realized that so far he only moved twenty-something meters away but this short distance suddenly felt like a gargantuan chasm that's impossible for him to cross in his current state of weakness.

  'I've got to get the fuck out of here!' Bryan thought while gritting his teeth.

  Still it hurt more and more to even walk normally whenever he took another step towards the portal, his legs felt like they were glued to the ground or he was moving in waist-deep mud.

  Unbeknownst to him the situation only got worse for him when his breathing started to become more and more chaotic.

  Simply because these particles started to work their way both deeper into his skeletal structure and to the surface towards his skin.

  Finally Bryan started to realize how bad his situation really is once he got to see with his own eyes as his skin dried up and started to crack which caused fine spots of blood to cover him everywhere!

  But the most extreme of all was the bone-gnawing pain which felt like countless ants feasting on his skeleton.

  Bryan was in so much agony and suffering but the severe sense of crisis and extreme urgency to survive stifled all the cries of pain as he crawled on the ground once his legs failed to carry him forward, grunting heavily with every single movement as he dug his fingers through the mud of this grassnd and pulled his body forward towards dear life.

  Many times he'd bnk out only to realize that he stopped moving then fight against the dark spots trying to fill his thoughts while willing his shaky hands to reach further and pull while hoping that his legs and feet which he already lost all sembnce of feeling towards would actually do their part and push his body forward.

  'I...'

  Bryan found it hard to open his eyes but he could feel a gring light passing through his eyelids once he managed to move them this tiny crack.

  The warmth on his skin revitalized his thoughts a bit and his lips moved as he muttered : "Survived."

  Bryan shielded his eyes with a hand from the sunlight and found himself lying on the hard and cold floor of his bathroom.

  The first thing he noticed was the mud all over his arm and the rich amount of it underneath his fingernails plus the strands of grass stuck on his skin and between his fingers.

  *Ugh*

  Everything everywhere was beyond sore and hurting but Bryan struggled to sit up then back on his feet while relying on the assistance of the sink after the shower curtains failed him and were torn out.

  *Gasp*

  However, the person looking back at him through the mirror looked like as if he crawled out from a grave!

  The part on the front of his profile that is... because the part on the back looked like he got dragged through the sewers of some butcher since his skin was caked in a disgusting amount of blood which started to clot.

  "Eww~"

  "Mommy. It stinks in here!"

  "It does. Hurry you two, I still have to drop you in the daycare before I go to work."

  The conversation between the family on the corridor right next to his bathroom window reminded Bryan of his own matters which is the exam he needs to attend today.

  "I better clean up first before someone report the authorities on me." He muttered while opening the water of his shower.

  Bryan leaned his back on the wall and let the water pouring down on his skin do the work since he was too weak to do anything right now other than rex and enjoy getting cleaned while celebrating being alive for now at least.

  A couple minutes ter he gathered his strength and used the tools avaible to him to remove all traces of what happened in the bathroom then applied some healthy amount of shampoo and shower gel to his own body before getting out.

  "Fuck! When is this going to end?" Bryan cursed once he got outside the bathroom and sniffed at the foul smell of his room, he was immediately able to pinpoint the source once his eyes fell on his own bed.

  The bedsheets were covered in this yellow-greenish color which emitted a halo that even bugs didn't dare fly or go anywhere near it!

  "I need to get rid of this mattress." He said while doing a quick mental calcution of how much money he has left on him after giving Linnet a huge chunk of it yesterday.

  'Your ass is going to sleep on the hard floor this month... unless!' Bryan thought and a wicked smile appeared on his face in the end.