Everything around him was vivid, a painful brightness, too much after so long with the muted double light and red. Odd to see a mishmash of color everywhere. The headache crept up and settled, cat-loaf perfect, right behind his left eye.
His stomach roiled with hunger. His beautiful apples were probably rotten mush after this long. Everything in his fridge too, probably.
People gave him a wide birth, Zeke noticed about halfway back to his apartment, in the same way they walked around roughhousing teenagers. Covered in grit and his dirt red clothes, he wasn’t surprised. He felt like hell, it stood to reason he looked like it.