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Suddenly, I snapped awake. This had to be real. Nothing in a dream could crunch me up this bad. I still felt tired but not the bone deep, burning, drained far past my limits weary way I had. I still hurt in various places so I can’t have been out that long.
I didn’t recognize where I was but it was like some kind of covered public square. It was definitely inside a building with streams of people coming and going but there was sun and plants. It felt kind of… shopping complex but with a more corporate feel. I seemed to be resting on a park bench like thing out of sight.
I’d been washed but I was in my own clothes, not the ‘borrowed’ stealth suit. I could do with another wash though… and I was hungry as a she wolf with ten puppies.
I tried standing. My knee was unreliable but no more than usual and only a little stiff considering the hammering it had gotten… the rest of me too.
I wondered how long I’d been out and who’d been watching over me meantime. Was this real too? I didn’t get it. If what had happened before was real wouldn’t that Ger guy have had me stashed someplace safe? He’d seemed pretty determined to keep me and it had sounded like he’d gone to a bit of trouble setting up my snatch.
Well, an opportunity was an opportunity. Maybe now was a good time to skip out on this place and go home.
Maybe I’d been intercepted again like when I fell off the cliff. It made about as much sense as anything else that had happened.
I attempted to use the rail of the bench to pull myself upright and watched in horror as my hand passed straight through it.
I felt like there was somewhere I needed to go but I had no idea where…only a vague directional tug. It wasn’t enough to do more than make me turn my head in that direction for a moment though. (Found out later that this is the part where most Bond Babes minds retreat to somewhere else, leaving a well behaved, complacent, willess Zombie Chick behind. I kind of wondered why my mind hadn’t. Sure, I had things I wanted to protect but that shouldn’t have mattered. Something else had to be going on.)
I stared at the bench beneath me and found myself falling through it.
-What the hell?- I thought. It’d been solid before!
Then I passed through the floor as well.
Was this some kind of out-of-body experience or something? I didn’t get it. How could my body hurt so much if I didn’t even have it with me?!
Something that looked like red cords snatched and jerked at me and I had a sudden burst of blazing headache and passed out, still totally confused.