(Viewpoint: Roum)
I don't remember your face, but your hands, that's you… Is it really you?
A white light shone through my closed eyelids.
It's hot.
Where am I?
My head feels so heavy.
I can only perceive heartbeats.
Regular.
Distant.
Voices.
Impossible to understand.
I wanted to open my eyes.
I can't do it.
I'm in pain all over.
My fingers moved slightly.
Then...
The ground disappeared.
My body falls.
My heart aches.
My throat tightens and my back gets cold.
No sound comes out.
I fall.
This must stop.
The light above me was getting bigger and bigger.
Then she disappeared.
BIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
I open my eyes.
I'm suffocating.
My body jerked up abruptly before falling back against a cold surface.
A white light assaults me.
I blink several times.
I don't understand.
Or...
I slowly turn my head.
Silhouettes.
Several.
White.
Blouses.
Masks.
Screens.
Machines.
Cables.
I want to move.
My arm is barely responding, I feel like I'm tied down.
An alarm sounded immediately.
BIP-BIP-BIP.
– He is awake.
A voice.
Another woman replies to him.
– Stabilize the parameters.
– His brain activity increases.
I watch them.
I don't understand any of their words.
I'm trying to speak.
My throat refuses, I have a tube filling my entire throat.
It's horrible.
I can't even put a hand on my neck.
My fingers are trembling.
I turn my eyes away.
And I freeze.
My body...
I don't recognize my own body.
I am naked.
My skin is pale under this artificial light.
But something is covering a part of me.
A darkness.
And what about the fact that I was burned?
I can hardly believe the reflection I see in front of me.
My torso is black, it extends up the entire left side of my body.
It was as if someone had poured ink directly under my skin.
Yet I feel nothing.
No pain.
No heat.
I can't see where this transparent window is distorting my vision.
A capsule.
I'm inside.
Conduits are fixed around me.
Sensors are scanning my body.
A red light is flashing above my head.
Why are they all looking at me like that?
Then an image crosses my mind.
A fall.
A light.
The Pit.
I suddenly pull on my hand.
My breathing quickens.
I remember.
I fell.
I fell, I fell? Where did I fall?
How long ?
I'm watching the scientists.
They are watching me.
Their gaze doesn't seem very friendly; it's as if they're watching something wake up.
Like looking at something that has just worked.
One of them approaches the capsule.
He places a hand against the console.
- Fascinating…
I don't understand.
He continues.
– The reaction is much faster than expected.
Another scientist is looking at his screen.
– The markers are stable.
– And the structure?
Silence.
– Still impossible to define.
I look at my reflection again.
One half of me is normal.
The other...
seems not to belong to this world.
I close my eyes.
I open my eyes again.
The scientist is still looking at me.
He speaks.
I hardly listen anymore.
Because behind them...
I see something.
A silhouette.
Very far away.
Behind the scientists.
A woman.
I can't make out his face.
I feel like I recognize her.
But as soon as I blink, she disappears.
I quickly turn my head.
Nothing.
Only white walls.
Machines and scientists.
I still don't understand anything.
I don't know what I'm doing here.