Act like a child and jump in the leaf pile

 

Giving into your inner child, you back up towards the gate, run towards the leaf pile, and cannonball into it! You get up and start laughing, brushing the leaves off yourself. But they seem stuck to your arms. You pluck one off and feel a tinge of pain. Oddly, your once red jacket seems to have turned brown. Same for your jeans. You shrug it off as just dirt. You walk around some more, but with every step your body gets stiffer and stiffer. You eventually find yourself fully immobile, and you can only watch as the brown color of your clothes spreads to your skin and coats you completely. Your clothes have fused into your skin, which hardens into tough bark. You feel your skeleton shatter, your bark is supporting you now. Your legs start to fuse, and in a matter of seconds from the waist down you're a vertical log. Long, thin roots sprout from all sides of where your feet were, and embed themselves into the ground. You feel nutrients flow up from them, moving to all the parts of your growing body. The leaves on your arms multiply as your arms are forced upwards and outwards, your fingers stretching to freakish lengths. You feel carbon dioxide come through them. You grow additional fingers and arms as your body rounds out, eventually there is nothing even remotely human about you. You are a tall tree. At first you're utterly scared, but as the days, the weeks, the years pass, you begin to feel content with your form. After all, all you need is sunlight and water to live, and you grow far beyond human size. You watch your old friends grow old, while you still feel young.

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