I see bright lights.
I squint and blink rapidly, hearing my breathing echoing throughout my head, my mind.
"This is Karen, can you hear me?"
"Shine this light in her eye. Here."
My vision swims.
I am now starring at a middle-aged woman in a black dress-suit, currently shinning a small light in my eye. I flinch and move out of the way of the blinding light.
"She's with us," the woman says. "Charlie, you have used you Life-line in violation of Code-V45."
I take a breath and glance around the white office room with people in suits running around everywhere. I hear phones ringing and people yelling across the room.
It's chaos.
"I want to talk to Pierce," I say.
She gives me a pinched expression and looks at her male colleague. "I am afraid that is not possible. If you violate the cod
