SOC Blog #11 - David part 2

continuation...

My cells lifted, lifted, lifted.... I could feel gravity lessening as the ground hurtled towards me like some sort of odd illusion.

This was it. My life flashed before my eyes in cold disjointed images. Father with his belt, Mother with her flashing smile. My daughter, my wife.... my brain released massive quantities of adrenaline with the ground less than 50 feet beneath me.

I had been flailing in mid air, and at the moment the adrenaline hit me I was facing away from the building, as if I were simply walking away from it. My cells lunched me backwards slamming me into the side of the building right above the front door. My breath knocked out of me and with people looking to see what was happening, I coughed and heaved. I was alive. It wasn't all over, in fact it seemed to be just the beginning.

Then I lost consciousness.

Hours seemed to pass in instants. I could see muted lights, and blue glows around me when I opened my eyes for seconds before passing back into what felt like a calm, drug induced sleep.

........

A dark figure glanced from my chart and back down to him.

"Let him sleep it off," he said in a deep voice. "We'll talk more wIn I wakes up."

To be continued