Am I hallucinating?
I'm floating above a hospital bed in the Intensive Care Unit in W City Hospital. Seeing a blurry form in the bed.
Is that...could that be me?
Monitors sing their electronic song, doctors and nurses chatter. I catch disjointed bits and pieces of medical terminology, but I can't make out anything.
My mother continues to beg me to come back. "JOSH! Can you hear me?"
The doctors and nurses ask her to leave. Hey! That's my mother you're kicking out of my hospital room! Dad does NOT sound happy. Damon rushes in.
"JOSH!"
"Blaze? Blaze?"
That's Kaline's voice from the game. Her concern cuts through the surreal vision. The hospital room, the life-saving equipment, the doctors and nurses, and my family all vanish.
I pant hard, back in my body, with my tawny striped paws splayed out on the dirt. Calm down, Blaze. Josh. Whoever I am.
