16 Everything had become the strangest hue of red and orange with distant items colored a cooler blue and green, all with vapor trails. The lights were very dim for a moment before the voices came. Each one distant and indistinct, their language was dull and inaudible. The lights grew brighter as Vladderon began to remember what had happened. All of his misguided confusions suddenly made sense, even if his senses refused to function properly. Vladderon relaxed for a moment to let the doctors around him go to work, though he couldn’t shake the suspense of knowing just how messed up he had gotten in the last battle. Still, he was just happy to be alive. “Can you hear me now? How are you feeling?” A voice echoed from behind a white mask. “Hey, yeah, I’m alright.” Vladderon said to the cel

