Once a man named Chad had ventured to the beach on a sunny Saturday afternoon, hoping for a relaxing day of solitude by the shore. Much to his surprise, the beach was eerily vacant, and he relished the opportunity to soak in the sun without a crowd around.
With the sun high in the sky, Chad decided to make the most of the situation by getting an even tan. He stripped down to his speedo and lay on his beach towel. As he basked in the sunlight, he noticed something unusual—a mysterious black pearl had washed up on the shore.
Intrigued, Chad picked up the pearl. As he held it, an uncanny sensation washed over him. It was as if the pearl was exerting an unusual force on him. Slowly but surely, the changes began.
First, his nails hardened into thick calcite, and his bones started to dissolve. His internal structure simplified, and his digestive system underwent a bizarre transformation, forming a perfect loop from his navel to his anus. His speedo seemed to melt away into his flesh, disappearing completely. His testicles merged to form an internalized reproductive anatomy.
Desperation set in as Chad's arms weakened, and the heavy material of his shell encased his once-fleshy body. He struggled to free himself, but his altered morphology offered no escape. Without limbs, he could only wiggle helplessly as the changes continued, creeping up his neck.
A strange pressure built up deep in his throat, and his esophagus writhed and slithered like a snake. As his spine dissolved, the pressure was released, and Chad's neck extended into an impressively long siphon.
Exhausted and defeated, he tried to move away from the shore in search of help, but the weight of his shell was too much. Feebly, he draped his siphon across the sand, the warm sunrays caressing his transformed skin. Chad watched with dejection as his once-gorgeous locks fell sadly from his scalp, carried away by the tide. Horror gripped him as he saw his nose distort before his eyes.
His skull began to dissolve, along with the last remnants of his complex human tissue. Thoughts, memories, and his humanity itself dissolved, leaving behind a simple, thoughtless existence. The clam that was once Chad twitched in confusion as its motor control shifted to ganglia throughout its body.
The unsuspecting beachgoer who had sought solitude in the sun had ceased to be. With its disproportionate siphon, the geoduck, as it now was, couldn't retract into its shell. Seeking shelter, it burrowed deep into the cold, wet sand beneath its body, where it would spend the rest of its life. Satisfied with its depth, it expelled a slurry of sediment and seawater from its siphon, the price of encountering the enigmatic black pearl.
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