Twas the night before Christmas, and all throughout the house, not a creature was stirring, except for you. You were sprinkling salt around the perimeter of your home. Demons? Nah. Superstitions? Nope. Immortal snail that's been trying to touch you for decades now? Yeah, that would do it.

It all started the day you pressed the button, a silly scenario: you get a large sum of money, but a snail follows you around forever. If it touches you, your life is over. You thought it was silly, it wasn't real! It was just a funny scenario, right? You were proved wrong the next day when walking to work. A snail was slowly following you. You noticed it in your place of work, and then the grocery store a week later, and then your partner's apartment. As the years went on, the snail continued to follow... and it grew more and more cunning with every passing day.

So here you were, sat on your couch, not even the tree was lit up. You were scared of alerting it. Scared of giving that godforsaken snail any hint that you were home. Little did you know, you missed a spot with that salt.