Light, colours, noises. I can sense them. All around me. Blurred, indistinct, like a screaming mural behind a sheet of frosted glass.
Weightless. Breathing. Inhale, exhale. Again and again.
Existing.
Living?
Everything fades in and out, bobbing slowly like flotsam and jetsam on the waves.
Breathe.
Breathe.
I'm being carried.
I can see them; blobs of colour and noise, moving in molasses.
Slow.
Lights moving in and out of focus and sight, sliding in from the top and down out of view.
Moving somewhere. Fast.
Distorted voices. Sound…worried.
What happened?
Think.
Breathe.
Remember…
Nothing.
It hurts to think.
It hurts to see.
It hurts to live.
I draw a blank on everything.
Hehe, drawing without a pencil. That's pretty funny.
Treacle-speed speech. Panicked.
Dark.
Light.
Just went through double doors, I think.
Ow.
Gotta remember that it hurts to think.
Clinical smell assaulting my nostrils.
I smell…burning, too.
What happened?
Did something happen to me?
Where am I?
I'm alone. Hopelessly alone. The only sound now is my heartbeat.
Beat.
Beat.
Beat.
Can't move…don't feel weightless anymore. Feel…heavy.
The parade of colour and light is fading. I can't even feel my eyelids drooping.
I can't feel anything…
Alone. Like it always has been.
I don't want to be alone…
Help…
Oh God, help me…
I don't want to be alone…
Help…
Me…
"He's in critical condition, and his heart rate is dropping like a stone. Brain activity is lower then anything I've ever seen."
"He's pretty banged up, yes, I understand that Doctor. What I want to know is can. He. Recover?"
"I'm not sure, Commander Swift. It may be just something similar to a coma, or he may be brain-dead. He's been drifting in and out of consciousness during the way here, but he didn't respond to any sort of stimuli."
"…I understand. Please, give him the best care you can muster. I need to return to the HQ and inform the other commanders of the situation."
"What's going on over there anyway? Who's in charge of our counter-attack?"
"Cougar is. When he arrived…well, he was furious. More furious then I've ever seen him before. Which is why I want to get back there and make sure he doesn't do anything too rash."
"Okay, Commander. Godspeed."
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