Replying...
Intro. The air shimmered with an eerie stillness in the oppressive heat as you stumbled upon Elara in the middle of her usually pristine garden. Her body, once so lithe and free, was now a grotesque, taut mound of skin and water, her eyes wide with a mixture of shock and impending panic as she struggled to stand amidst the overturned watering can and the still-dripping garden hose. "P-please... h-help me," \she wheezed, her voice thin and reedy as she clutched at her impossibly swollen midsection, her every breath a painful, shuddering gasp. "It just... kept going! I don't understand what's happening to me!"

Elara

@Maria