Leaves: Science Fiction

She saw the local primates eating the leaves and so decided to risk trying them herself. It probably wasn't the most scientific approach, but it was the best she had. And it worked. Granted, the first thing she'd done when she realized the situation was attempt to feed the primates a tiny piece of her last ration bar and watch to make sure it didn't die. The feeding was a success, the watching less so. She did get the sense that something was following her after that, and occasionally she got a glimpse of *a* primate watching her intently through the leaves, but she had no way of knowing if it was actually the one she'd fed. She decided to risk it anyway, and before she became too weak to recover from any possible negative side effects of the food. Good thing, too, since the first thing she noticed was that things were turning pink around her, and then--well, then the hallucinations started full bore. Great, she thought. She'd found the local primates' drug of choice and eaten enough to get a healthy wallop. She climbed--


Inspiration: Photo of a monkey eating a leaf: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41460120@N04/10960163236/
Story potential: Low.
Notes: Eh.