Here Now

He awoke reeling in pain. Head pounding, eyes burning, muscles aching. Dragging himself up and then falling back down slowly, forcing his stomach muscles to protrude from the effort. He lay his head upon a lumpy pillow and closed his eyes, making a silent call to the memory of the previous night. “ God why can't I remember?” Massaging his temples, slowly rotating clockwise then slightly faster in reverse and back again. The pale sickly skin creased and folded up into intricate wrinkled designs giving off a luminescent quality as the blood was forced away from the surface.

His mind started to play images on the inside of his right eyelid but they were blurred. “Out of focus,” he lamented. Opening his right eye while keeping the left closed caused the images to immediately cease. He saw through his open eye dark spots hovering in the right corner of his vision and he suddenly imagined that his eye might look like a full moon, with black craters festooned over the pearly surface. He shot up. Buckling and wobbling from the soreness in his legs, his head was so light it felt as if it would fly off of his neck.

He threw himself at a mirror adorned to the back of a door and grabbed its worn wooden edges, steadying his awkwardness as he raised his bent head and gazed into the mirror with his right eye. A sheen of light peeked through a slit in the door just above the mirror. He recoiled, pulling his head back as he was momentarily blinded by the brilliance. He blinked a few times as the darkness disappeared from his right eye, while simultaneously his left eye still closed started receiving the same blurry images he had just seen with his right eye.

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[Warrior]

Great story telling. This did justice in the realm of getting the message across. Great message.