Tattoo

Alex: Hey, do you have a moment?

Ryan: What's up? Everything okay?

Alex: It's just… I don't know, I feel strange.

Ryan: Strange how? Are you sick?

Alex: No, it's not that. It's something about the tattoo I got in Thailand.

Ryan: That weird symbol one? I thought you'd forgotten about it. What's wrong?

Alex: I don't know how to explain it, but it seems different from before.

Ryan: Different how? Dude, I didn’t know tattoos could move.

Alex: I swear, sometimes when I look at it, it doesn't seem like the same symbols. Like they change shape when I'm not watching.

Ryan: 😂 Stop taking drugs. It's probably just your mind playing tricks on you.

Alex: I wish it were that. Yesterday it looked like there were lines that weren’t there before. And… you’re going to laugh, but I swear I saw a kind of face in the design.

Ryan: Okay, now you're scaring me. Are you sure you're alright?

Alex: I'm not alright. Last night I dreamed about the symbols. In the dream, they were on the walls, the floor, my skin… and something was watching them.

Ryan: This isn’t normal. Why don’t you talk to a doctor or something?

Alex: A doctor won't help with this.

Ryan: Then what?

Alex: I'm going to find the person who did it. It was a girl, I think her name was Suda.

Alex: Ryan, do you think any of the guys who went on the trip have the tattoo artist's contact info? I don’t remember anything from that night.

Ryan: Now that you mention it… I think Mike took a card. He always does that, like he’s collecting ‘random places.’

Alex: Can you ask him?

Ryan: Sure, give me a few minutes. I’ll message him.

Alex: Thanks. This is driving me crazy.

Ryan: He replied. He says he has an email address for the girl. Here it is: suda_tattoo@tai_world.com

Alex: Great. Thanks, really.

Ryan: Hey, but what if it’s something physical? Like, what if the ink had something weird? Psychedelic or something messing with your brain.