Talk:"They"/@comment-25801271-20151021181816/@comment-10201400-20151224035341

That was sort of my intention; no one really knows how or why what has happened did transpire. It's supposed to be a mystery left up to the reader's interpretation. This story is an older work, so it does have it's flaws, but the whole idea was based on an actual car trip that I was on a few years back where something like this happened (pretty much everything happened except for the facemelting, which obviously I made that up). The whole "they" concept is designed to stump the reader, as in the events leading up to the passengers becoming "them" their behavior becomes increasingly more illogical and irrational, and quite frankly unrealistic, as was the real car trip.