Serum

-Sixty-Nine-

Finally the drugged sleep let me go again. This time there was no one around to summon someone to push me back under, either. My skin no longer felt like it was screaming obscenities at me. And I thought I might be able to move without passing out.

The room around me felt too silent, though, as I brought first one arm to my face slowly and carefully before attempting to move the other. I ached to my bones, but I could move. I was also wrapped up like a mummy.

I picked at the gauze on my face with a hiss. It was hard to even see through the layer they’d placed over my eyes to try to remove it, plus it had gotten stuck to my skin and that was enough to gross me out just imagining it ripping from my skin. I was getting panicky not being able to see well, and the dread building around the fe