When I arrived in Kitolia, I felt ethereal, as if I was only part of the past. The sky was bright on that day. My
shoes were wet. Puddles on the street were the only remains of the storm that passed through the town only moments ago. Most people seemed not to notice overflowing canals and closed pedestrian walks. Anyway, since the oil price crash, that drove fuel price to negligible amounts two years ago, hardly anyone was walking for commute. Soon after my arrival, I noticed that some people were behaving rather bizarrely, trying to climb nearby buildings and trees. It must have been some mass event or a local custom.

Intrigued, I talked to some resident and found out that all Kitolians suffered from unexplained headaches. It started with unexplained blizzards showing in the sky, even on sunny days. Some citizens found that the world was getting more and more blurry to them, kind of distant and less familiar. The headaches escalated each day. Medical experts announced a migraine epidemic in the city. The cause remained unknown. Strangely, not everything kept in line with the diagnosis. Residents did not respond to prescribed treatments. The only way for them to sooth the pressure building up in their heads was to climb. residents felt an unintelligible urge to go up - up the stairs, up the ladder, on a treetop or on a mountain peak, the higher and closer to sky, the
better.

A man told me that the level of water surrounding Kitolia is rising again. History repeats itself. Many Kitolias got submerged by water. This one is no different. The pressure rises in the city causing the strange headaches to its citizens. Soon the streets will become rivers and then it will be too late, the man concluded and walked away.