CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 43Consciousness came back to Mara, but the darkness did not go away, nor could she move a muscle. She felt bound—constricted somehow—as if someone had tied down her arms, legs and torso to a table. Add her head to that. Her neck did not respond when she attempted to turn it. Even her eyelids refused to respond. An overwhelming claustrophobia swept over her. For a second she thought she might be in a coffin. Her pulse quickened inside her head, and, as panic set in, she wasn’t even sure if she could breathe. From somewhere a voice said, “I’m detecting beta wave activity. She’s coming to.” “Mara? Can you hear me?” It sounded like Ping. She tried to call out to him, but her mouth would not respond. She gritted her teeth and constricted her throat, physically forcing out the words.
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