A Jelly Ninja Star? Maybe. I call it the Ever-Lasting Jelly Gobber. Was introduced to this cosmic confection last night, whilst riding the sub-worldly subway system. I was set up to sketch random people on the train, but there wasn''t any for a good while, till a group of nerdy looking boys got on, and sat directly across from me (mid-train). They were quiet and reserved, barely speaking to one another. I watched one boy that was intensely sucking on some candy, I presumed....and went it at for a good long while in daze, not moving. Then he began fishing around his mouth...till he found, and pulled (with a good deal of effort) this odd, rubbery, translucent mass from the inside of his cheek. He examined it for a moment, and then passed it off to the boy beside him, who also examined it for a moment, and then...........tucked into his mouth.\r\n\r\nI watched each boy pass the same gelatinous rubber on to his friend, and squirmed no-less then had they been sharing the same used condom. I think what weirded me out most was that the candy seemed alive. It moved, slowly but with sentience. Like some bio-engineered, luminescent jelly-fish. It undulated, and rolled it''s edges...appearing disturbed and uncomfortable when removed the wet, warmth of it''s host. The last boy was finishing his turn with it as we arrived at a stop. When the doors to the train opened, he held the jelly-thing in his fingers, pulled back on one point of it...like a sling-shot, and let go...sending it snapping through the air, and splating against the concrete wall opposite the doors. The thing merged into the surface of the wall, expanded some, and then a glowing radius appeared around it...I''d say about 3 feet wide. Inside the circle was an iris of increasing light, a soft blue-aqua....that the jelly-star became the pupil of, was it create some miro-black hole in the center. The glowing increased for a moment, and the all-seeing eye at the center rotated round a few times on it''s access. As the train was pulling off, it stopped. The glow faded, and the gateway faded back to the appearance of a normal concrete wall.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nI grinned in some confusion at the wall, then at the boys. Probably due most to a final "reason" for their communal candy. The boys had seen me staring, but were oblivious, until now when one of them grinned back and said, "She has a decision to make". Another boy pulled from his pocket a package of cellophane, tore it open, and exposed another Ever-Lasting Jelly Gobber...and held it out to me. As usual...I was reluctant & super-cautious, but something about the casualness & innocence of the boys, put me at ease. They urged me to place the jelly in my mouth, and then instructed me to "think about things". Think about anything. Ponder everything as I sucked away on the moving mass in my mouth. It lodged against the inside of my cheek and pulsed. Highly-strange. Obviously, I assumed it was collecting data, thoughts, emotions, experience...and I was careful not to fall into realms of thinking that might cause me embarrassment...had I had to pass the candy along, back to one of the boys to sample. I had a fresh piece from the pack, so I had no clue what ''used'' candy was about. They told me I had 20 hours to think about things at which point the flavor would subside, and I was to toss it out somewhere...anywhere.\r\n\r\nThe jelly had a slight citrus flavour. Maybe lemon-lime to correspond to it''s glowing-greenish tint? Some highly, advanced alien civilization taking a survey on a popular ''human'' flavour. I was able to see more when the candy was in mouth. Nothing out of the ordinary (for me). Small, random things, here and there. All black people appeared blue...a deep-indigo, which I found interesting. Anyway...then I woke up. A voice in my head telling me that I had to make a picture of the sweet-sentient jelly-star...and put it online.
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