Shards of Memory
And then I was awake. It didn't happen gradually, with a slow realisation of my whereabouts coming to the fore, but suddenly, as if I had been pummelled into consciousness.
I came awake: coughing, spluttering, gasping. My heart thundered in my chest. My eyes felt like needles had been driven into them. My head… My God! My head! It hurts with the fires of hell and damnation itself. I feel it… will… EXPLODE…
I'm calmer now. More collected. I feel… weak… but more in touch with my whereabouts than I was before. And where am I?
A beach. To one side a pale sea, to the other a forest of choking trees. The beach extends away from me, dizzying into the distance. I am alone. I am utterly, utterly alone.
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