Chapter 1
Everything’s white. Every corner. So much so, it feels unbearable. I walk in the endless vastness of white, suspended between two worlds, neither of which I could escape.
I could always wake up, after all reality is never empty of anything. The thought is just a tale I tell myself to stay here longer.
It feels like time has no hold over this place...if it makes sense. It has a strange sense of peace, a steady rhythm, or maybe no rhythm at all.
Yet within this peace, I feel something dull inside me. Ignorance...or perhaps a quiet forgetting. Each moment of this endless vastness felt like a moment of urgency lost. It’s odd, I know there was something I needed to do.
Before I could let the thought sink, the world began to darken. This world, which was devoid of darkness I kept running from, was slowly slipping away. I was sinking in this expanse of a dark ocean...
...until I heard faint sounds of steady beeping. My eyes fluttered open, vision hazy at first. Once my eyes adjusted to the surroundings, I saw a bright ceiling, and tubes lining my arms.
The strong scent of antiseptic filled my senses, as voices became distinct and clear. I was in a hospital.
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A week has passed since I woke up in the hospital. Medical professionals defined by scrubs and white coats came and went, asking basic questions.
Did I know my name? No.
Did I know where I was? Yes.
Did I remember what happened before the so-called accident? No.
It wasn’t strange to them that I had forgotten who I was. They said my body had endured major trauma.
To me, though, this body felt like another person’s shell. It wasn’t mine. It didn’t feel like mine.
I couldn’t remember much since waking up in this cold, unfamiliar place, surrounded by faces I barely registered. But I knew one thing with certainty.
My intuition was rarely wrong.
