[Blade wakes up clear-headed for once, for the first time in a long time, and discovers that the date written on the dry erase board in his hospital room is about two weeks later than he last remembers. At first he wonders if what happened was one big long nightmare, but then he becomes aware of the IV in his arm, and the bandages everywhere, and that there's someone else in the bed next to him who looks terribly familiar.
He doesn't feel the usual burning malevolence of Mara in the back of his mind but he also isn't thinking about that right now. Instead he's flailing around trying to get closer. Unfortunately, he trips himself up and rips off his blood oxygen monitor in the confusion, causing the monitor to beep quietly.]
Dan Heng? Dan Heng! Da—
[He manages to get one foot on the floor, but the wheels on his bed spin out from underneath him and he goes crashing to the floor.
Now there are monitors going off. The nurse is probably going to come in a minute.]
action; forward dated to jan 27th;
He doesn't feel the usual burning malevolence of Mara in the back of his mind but he also isn't thinking about that right now. Instead he's flailing around trying to get closer. Unfortunately, he trips himself up and rips off his blood oxygen monitor in the confusion, causing the monitor to beep quietly.]
Dan Heng? Dan Heng! Da—
[He manages to get one foot on the floor, but the wheels on his bed spin out from underneath him and he goes crashing to the floor.
Now there are monitors going off. The nurse is probably going to come in a minute.]