Out of Nowhere (2012)
“Agent on the Mend 25. Agent on the Mend Becoming conscious again felt peculiar. It was very different from other such returns, like waking from sleep, say, or the slow, tingling passage into flesh in the first place. The body had been technically dead after all, animated only by my friend’s efforts.
I felt a tightness around my throat – bandages – and the warmth of two solid lumps in the bandages that I knew were the crystals – healing crystals now.
There was no confusion as such. I kne...w what must be happening. As to what had happened since I died, that was a different matter. I didn’t even know how much time had passed since then. My memory ended with the last thought I’d had as the hunter with the hatchet jumped from the ditch beside me. My body had been groggy from sleep; getting out of the car, I’d seen the hunter’s movement only as a blur. Even as I’d turned to unshade him that last thought had gone quite clearly through my mind – the thought that I’d been too slow.MoreLess
I felt a tightness around my throat – bandages – and the warmth of two solid lumps in the bandages that I knew were the crystals – healing crystals now.
There was no confusion as such. I kne...w what must be happening. As to what had happened since I died, that was a different matter. I didn’t even know how much time had passed since then. My memory ended with the last thought I’d had as the hunter with the hatchet jumped from the ditch beside me. My body had been groggy from sleep; getting out of the car, I’d seen the hunter’s movement only as a blur. Even as I’d turned to unshade him that last thought had gone quite clearly through my mind – the thought that I’d been too slow.MoreLess
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