Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Chapter 88

THE INSIDE of Seth’s cochlea was even grosser than his earwax situation. It was filled with this fluid that was… ugh, I don’t even want to get into it.

I swam through the gook until I reached another opening filled with what looked like yellow spaghetti.

Aha! Just what I was looking for, a gaggle of Seth’s nerves. Auditory or vestibular, I wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter.

I just needed a way to travel so far into his skull that there’d be no chance for him to get me out. I wriggled into a ductlike nerve, headfirst, and continued on my merry way, spelunking through Seth’s head.

For some reason, I don’t think Seth was having as much fun as I was. Periodically I would hear him moan things like NO and PLEASE and my personal favorite, MOMMY.

“I’m right here, honey!” I called back. “But you know what they say about letting an opponent get inside your head?”

After about five minutes of wriggling, I arrived at more yellowish spaghetti, and clumps of unidentifiable organs that looked important, and rather delicate. By my calculations, I was now in Seth’s brain stem, halfway between his medulla oblongata and his pons.

This was the Grand Central Station of Seth’s brain, the part that controlled his respiration, his blood pressure, his heart rate.

“Are all the brains of your species this small, Chunk Bucket? Or are you like an exception?” I yelled.

“GET OUT OF MY HEAD!” Seth screamed.

His voice was truly thunderous in the chamber of his skull. The voice of an angry god in an evil temple.

“GET OUT OF MY HEAD NOW OR I’LL BOARD MY SHIP AND BLOW THIS PLANET TO DUST!” he screamed.

And that was different from what he had intended to do in what way?

“You want me out of your head?” I said.

“YES!”

“You sure?”

“YES!”

“Say please.”

“PLEASE!”

“Okay,” I said. “If you insist. But you won’t like it. Ready or not, I’m coming out!”