Royce's toes wriggled like worms.
Royce stared at himself in disbelief. He had never expected himself to turn purple!
Maybe, it was just a disease, and maybe it was only temporary, and he'd get his normal skin colour back later....
He was wondering what everyone else at the school would say when they saw him, when his thoughts were rudely interrupted. He'd caught sight of his hand, and, he'd saw that his fingernails had grown slightly longer, and they all ended in sharp points. His jaw hung for a while.
'That ain't right. Maybe I'm hallucinating,' Royce erroneously surmised, But as he went to absentmindedly bite a nail, he discovered that it wasn't just his fingernails that were growing. He saw that the nails on his toes were long and sharp too, like his fingers.
Royce was gobsmacked. What was going on with him?