Bottled Water

:"Newt Lowell had long since lost trust in what came from his taps, and so hydrated himself almost entirely on bottled water."
Bottled Water is a short story in the intermission of The Yellow Butterflies. It's far less psychologically-themed than Soldier, Tranquillity and Self-Perception, with a stronger sci-fi theme.
The most recent draft can be found here.
Warning: The following segments contain spoilers.
== Synopsis ==
The reader is introduced to Newt Lowell, a paranoid man who drinks only bottled water due to fear that his tap water is contaminated. He rarely leaves his apartment and begins to suffer from stomach complications, brushing it off as something he ate.
He soon finds other things to be strange, dismissing them: for example, he complains to his landlord of the vents rattling, finding it strange that the air conditioning is being turned on in the middle of winter. His appetite fluctuates and he becomes very thirsty and soon very weak, passing out in the corridor at one point.
== Characters ==
* Newt Lowell - The primary character. Paranoid and arrogant. Has problems, and a lot of bottled water.
* Newt's Landlord - A man who's sick of Newt's shenanigans.
* Newt's Neighbour - An elderly man who finds Newt unconscious in the corridor.
== Trivia ==
* Newt and the Broodmother both appear as NPCs (friendly-ish and hostile, respectively) in the tabletop RPG The Storm Complex, as residents of Room 13 (and the Floor 1 Vents). Newt is very upset about all the blood in the pool.
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