into the bathroom and whether it could possibly be something unusual. The uncertainty makes the discovery feel much more significant than it probably is.
Instead of ignoring it, you carefully pick it up with a tissue and examine it. You turn it from one side to another, trying to identify it. Perhaps it came from outside, or maybe something in the bathroom caused it to appear. Without an obvious explanation, your imagination begins creating increasingly strange possibilities.
The longer you investigate, the more convincing those possibilities seem. What began as
