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Sydney opened her eyes. Everything was white. The lights, the ceiling, the walls. She felt disoriented and dizzy. She moved her head and felt instant pain. She was in bed and that was white too. She was surrounded by equipment—beeping equipment. She looked around the room, even though her pounding head reminded her not to. Glass windows and door at the end of the bed exposed the nurse's station outside her room. I'm in a hospital. Why?
Slowly, her memory started to return. Lost keys, Arne's house, padlocks, the basement, the padlocked room…then what?
Sydney searched the bed and saw the push bell wrapped around the side bars on the bed. She grabbed it and pounded it. She kept pounding it in a panic, watching the nurse's station. One of them looked at a monitor and her head shot up to
