#incadreams

Across shifting light and rising altitude, the 3-day machu picchu tours from lima unfold like a measured passage, where coast gives way to highland silence, hours soften into reflection, and the final morning reveals stone and sky in a quiet meeting beyond time.

 it turns your skin hard and bluish purple and you get little purple crystal looking things on you, and i guess it effects mood as well so it makes you like, dangerously aggressive and also its contagious through skin contact and i guess when you get it the government sends you away to these work camp type things until you die from it which takes a few months to a few years and anyway i had a group of like four friends and one of the dudes caught it and his became really reactive so it spread on his body quickly and his girlfriend didnt want him to leave to the work camps to leave her and die alone so she would touch him but she wouldnt catch it (some people are immune but they dont lnow why) so they ended up trying to run away into the wild to survive but they were killed by government military trucks. And then another friend caught it but his aggression took over really fast and he ended up getting angry at us for some reason amd left and i think he didnt think the work camps were so bad or no, he found out the police , who wear full body suits, are usually people with full blown crystal iron ,but lowish violence rates, bc they are pretty much indestructable to anything the average person has ( anything from knives to makeshift hand guns bc the citizens werent allowed weapons) so anyway he wanted to join them but we told him they might nottake him bc he lashes out and then the people would find out the disease was being kept inside which would make them angry and could start an uprising or something. And so left and it was just me and my last friend who had also just told us he caught it but it was spreading very slowly but that he would probably be leaving to the work camps so he wouldnt hurt anyone else. So that night he was having family over like aunts and their kids and his parents ended up being so disgusted with him that they left maybe they were too vulnerable to the disease i dont remember. And anyway his aunts dont really like him but their kids adore him so they came over and we couldnt touch them but we could pat their backs and the jackets would be burned later (oh i think i had it too but mine just started up) and anyway we had a dinner and thhey asked him some questions like what he was planning on doing next since some people take different routes amd when he said work camp one of the aunts, the only one that likes him, got upset and had tonleave the room and then the other aunt was really grossed out and she called him a disgusting pervert (theres a stigma around the disease but i dont know why) and then he stood up for himself but i forgot what he said and she said how only perverts catch that disease so i told her something but again i forget unu , and anyway whatever i said shut her up and eventually they left and i didnt want to be alone or something so i wanted to go with him to the work camp and he was my last friend and my best friend so i touched his arm where the disease started and we waited for it to catch and then we left the ending of my dreams are really boring. (Also my friend was gay so i think the disease had a similar stigma to what AIDs has)