My mind keeps slipping away into the darkness as my body tries to awaken. My thoughts, as they phase in and out, keep saying something I can’t quite make heads or tails of, 'the void' maybe? Why are my eyes so heavy, why won’t my body awaken? The constant see-saw of consciousness is making me dizzy. I can’t wake up now, must go back to sleep.
I think only a few minutes have passed since I last tried to wake up. Once again I am aware I am sleeping, I can sense the time passing but that's all I can pick up. My best guess is I am somewhere in-between consciousness and nothing. It’s as if my sensory organs are disconnected. I can’t feel where I am, see anything, nor hear any sounds, I’m stuck in this dark place alone with my thoughts.
As I try to make sense of my situation I taste something in the background. It’s metallic maybe, I’m not sure. But what ever this is it can’t be good. I focus on the taste until it begins fading away. I'm loosing my grasp on consciousness again, I can taste it slipping away. Not much longer and I'll fall asleep again.
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There is a noise in the background. What is it saying? I can't tell. It sounds like a mumbled woman's voice. I opened my eyes, everything is black. I can't be sleeping this isn't like the last time, I can feel cold metal to my right sucking the heat out of my body. I am able to move, well sort of. I am moving but I am not going anywhere and my leg hurts really bad. There is no floor beneath me. I outstretch my arm towards the coldness. A wall, I think. But where am I? How did I get here? Who am I? These are all things I know I should know but I don't.
Ugh... My head hurts as well. I feel like I have a hatch breaker drone cracking open my skull and it doesn't help that I am shaking from the coldness of this place. For god sake where am I? This is the first question I need to figure out. I feel my way down the wall and touched a panel. Suddenly the room became really bright really quickly. In response to this optical overload I jerked my hands up to my face and shielded my eyes.
I slowly began to uncover my eyes. The room I am in is small and weightless. There are several dozen canisters floating about. As I inspected the room the throbbing in my leg grew more painful. I looked down to find my white jumpsuit is stained with blood. Closer inspection of the area revealed something sticking out from my leg, it looked like a chain. Somehow a pendant threaded itself through my leg. It had to be removed, this did not belong here. There is no clasp, maybe it's in my leg. I grit my teeth and ripped at the chain as hard as I could and almost instantly a link popped open. Slowly I pulled the chain and each link began to 'pop' out of my skin. The sound is almost as excruciating as the pain. With one final 'pop' the clasp emerged and the rest of the chain quickly followed. I brought the pendant up to my eyes and suddenly I was back in the void... Not this place again.
I think only a few minutes have passed since I last tried to wake up. Once again I am aware I am sleeping, I can sense the time passing but that's all I can pick up. My best guess is I am somewhere in-between consciousness and nothing. It’s as if my sensory organs are disconnected. I can’t feel where I am, see anything, nor hear any sounds, I’m stuck in this dark place alone with my thoughts.
As I try to make sense of my situation I taste something in the background. It’s metallic maybe, I’m not sure. But what ever this is it can’t be good. I focus on the taste until it begins fading away. I'm loosing my grasp on consciousness again, I can taste it slipping away. Not much longer and I'll fall asleep again.
...
There is a noise in the background. What is it saying? I can't tell. It sounds like a mumbled woman's voice. I opened my eyes, everything is black. I can't be sleeping this isn't like the last time, I can feel cold metal to my right sucking the heat out of my body. I am able to move, well sort of. I am moving but I am not going anywhere and my leg hurts really bad. There is no floor beneath me. I outstretch my arm towards the coldness. A wall, I think. But where am I? How did I get here? Who am I? These are all things I know I should know but I don't.
Ugh... My head hurts as well. I feel like I have a hatch breaker drone cracking open my skull and it doesn't help that I am shaking from the coldness of this place. For god sake where am I? This is the first question I need to figure out. I feel my way down the wall and touched a panel. Suddenly the room became really bright really quickly. In response to this optical overload I jerked my hands up to my face and shielded my eyes.
I slowly began to uncover my eyes. The room I am in is small and weightless. There are several dozen canisters floating about. As I inspected the room the throbbing in my leg grew more painful. I looked down to find my white jumpsuit is stained with blood. Closer inspection of the area revealed something sticking out from my leg, it looked like a chain. Somehow a pendant threaded itself through my leg. It had to be removed, this did not belong here. There is no clasp, maybe it's in my leg. I grit my teeth and ripped at the chain as hard as I could and almost instantly a link popped open. Slowly I pulled the chain and each link began to 'pop' out of my skin. The sound is almost as excruciating as the pain. With one final 'pop' the clasp emerged and the rest of the chain quickly followed. I brought the pendant up to my eyes and suddenly I was back in the void... Not this place again.
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