Katherina "BP’s crashing! We’re losing her!”I heard it, even though everything else was dark. I couldn’t open my eyes. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t feel my body. But I heard that voice, urgent, afraid, almost desperate. I wanted to tell them I was still here, still fighting, but I couldn’t move a muscle. It felt like I was trapped inside a glass box, screaming silently as the world moved on without me.Time passed, though I had no sense of how much. I drifted somewhere between life and death, held down by pain, by weight, by something I couldn’t name. Every now and then, I heard voices again, faint, muffled, like I was underwater. Machines beeped. People whispered. Sometimes I felt a warm hand on mine, sometimes I felt nothing at all.Then suddenly, I gasped.Or maybe I imagined that I gasped, because the pain was the first real thing I felt. It surged through my chest like fire. My throat burned raw. My limbs ached. My head pounded like someone had smashed a brick against my skull.
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