A student is staying in a shared house with a couple of his friends. It's not the cleanest of places, and at the moment they happen to have quite a severe infestation of ants. One night, the student falls asleep on the sofa. He was drunk the night before, and so it's a fairly heavy sleep. When he finally wakes, he's aware of a slight tickling sensation in his ear, but nothing more than that.
Thereafter, his health starts to go downhill. He suffers from near-constant headaches, cannot concentrate on anything or sleep, and occasionally passes out cold. His friends persuade him to go to the hospital, where an x-ray is taken of his head.
Before they can get the results however, the student collapses in the waiting room. The nurses begin the process of reviving him, but it's looking bad. While he lies there unconscious to the world, the doctors go to retrieve his x-ray results. They see then that there's something very badly wrong. They have their suspicions, but with just an x-ray they cannot be sure.
The student, still unconscious and barely alive is hauled in for emergency surgery. They cut his head open and take a look inside, expecting to find a tumour or a cyst. What they find instead is a tiny nest of ants, the busy little creatures scurrying here and there, feasting hungrily on the grey matter of his brain.
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