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My eyes drifted open. I was lying on my stomach on something hard and cold and my head was hurting. My cheek resting on something wet. I lifted my head to see what it was and a stabbing pain shot through the back of my head. I yelped and jerked up from the ground, which only caused more excruciating pain. It was so intense that I was forced to lay my head back down. There was pain in my back too. Under my left shoulder blade. What…?
My head throbbed and my vision blurred as I lay there waiting for my head to stop spinning.
Sand. I was lying on wet sand. My chest tightened. What happened? How did I get here?
No answers came. I couldn’t remember how I’d ended up here or how I’d hurt my head.
I flinched as water washed up against my legs. A beach? How…?
My breathing started coming in
