"Snap out of it kid!" Zik yelled at Jimmy.
When this didn't work, he slapped Jimmy across the face, and yelled, "Wake up!"
Those two words grabbed his attention, and brought him back to the real world as if they were sleeper agents. He had heard those words before, and he remembered them specifically, because just like now, those two words had been yelled at his face, by the very same entity that was messing with him every other day.
The correlation seemed random, but at that second, Zik's face looked like that entity's, faceless. No expression, no details, just shouts, and screams.
Zik then slapped him again, shook him up quite good, and just like that, Zik's face seemed colorful again. Normal.
Jimmy felt as if he had zoned out for several hours, but it had only been twenty seconds. He was so shocked, that at some point, he barely even remembered what was going on. He was numb.
