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﹛PROLOGUE﹜
The world around you is blinding white.
There's a high-pitched ringing in your ear.
An acrid smell of flesh burning.
You try to move.
Pain explodes across your torso.
So much pain.
You are slip
p
i
ng
down-
down-
down-
into nothingness.
Your mind wakes up slowly. Like molasses.
You blink.
You blink again.
Your vision adjusts to the cool blue light of your surroundings.
You sit up, but you feel no pain. You pull off the flimsy sheet covering your body, and look down. Shiny pink splotches of newly regenerated skin cover your chest and abdomen, but there's not a single wound in sight.
Taking note of your surroundings, you notice other medical pods surrounding yours, but you are the only one in the room.
You hop out of the pod to reach for a pair of long underclothes folded next to you. You put them on.
You realise that you have no idea how long you've been out. The last thing you remember is blinding white and nothing else. You don't even remember your name.
A beep from your right interrupts your musings. It's a data tablet. You reach for it.
The screen reads:
INCOMING AUDIO TRANSMISSION
▷ PRESS START TO PLAY
[ ○ VIEW DATA PACKET ]
