He had been uncertain about Mark leaving, but he needed the batteries. And, he still felt the creeping awareness of excitement to find himself still stranded in the body of a housefly.
With every buzz from his wings, Brad would laugh in giddy excitement, if a housefly could laugh. With barely a thought and a twitch, he can change the direction of his flight and veer off across the room.
And now everything looked so different. So big! Of course, he’s simply shifted into a much smaller form. A form with limitations. He can’t speak. Human speech is physiologically impossible. He soon finds the only sound he seems able to produce is the incessant buzzing from his wings.
He landed on a coin face up on his desk. As an experiment, he tries to move the coin, wrestles with his six tiny claw-tipped limbs, but he is now so small and weak he cannot hope to budge the coin.
Another delirious jolt of thrills caused him to tremble. He’s exiled in this form for until Mark returns with the batteries.
He might as well enjoy it. He decided to explore being a tiny, helpless, vulnerable insect to the fullest extent possible.
The buzzing from his wings grew louder, more frantic, as he struggled to come to terms with his new reality. He was a mere speck, a mote of dust against the vast expanse of his home. The coin he had been trying to move loomed as large and unyielding as a boulder. He couldn't even begin to comprehend how to shift his tiny form to lift such a ponderous weight.
But this vulnerability, this utter helplessness, filled him with a strange sense of exhilaration. He had chosen this, after all. He had willingly shedding his human form to experience the world from a completely different perspective. It was terrifying, but it was also thrilling beyond belief.
He took to the air once more, his wings beating a staccato rhythm against the stillness of the room. He flew in erratic patterns, swooping and diving, relishing the freedom of movement that his new form afforded him. He could go anywhere, could see everything from angles that he never could as a human.