Terrie jolted awake, chest clenching in pain as she tried to catch her breath.
She felt like she was falling, crashing against some jagged surface that, unfortunately, didn’t kill her immediately upon impact. Instead, as she let her senses get accumulated to her current surroundings, she could tell she was laying on a soft surface.
Perhaps a bed. A real one.
Then came the sounds she registered happening around her. People were talking in muffled voices, and there was a steady beeping noise near her left ear.
She twitched her fingers, feeling them drag along something that felt exactly like sheets covering a soft mattress. She told herself to calm down, over and over, and to focus on the sounds happening outside rather than the noise that seemed as if it were happening directly in he
