Oh god, his mouth is burning. Paul swallowed some of the wax, he actually swallowed it and it hardened in his throat on the way down. What if it thickens up quickly and chokes him? Paul struggles to pull the wax out of his mouth. Good thing his mouth is warm as the wax seems to be staying in a fairly liquid form. But is there wax in his stomach? The burning sensation on his tongue, like drinking hot coffee or burning his mouth on soup, is excruciating. Hot coffee or soup he can spit out, this is wax. It sticks there. Paul rushes into the kitchen and digs into the freezer for ice cubes. But then he doesn’t want to suck on ice because it will harden the wax.
“Thit,” he says. “Thit, thit, thit.”
Scraping his tongue with his fingernails. With a breadknife. Picking at his teeth.
“Thit.”
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