"Is she dead?""Don't be rude. She's breathing.""She was breathing yesterday too, look how that ended.""I think she’s waking up."I opened my eyes slowly, and found myself looking at a ceiling I did not recognize, and then at a very small round and fluffy puppy.The puppy was sitting on my chest. It was golden and white, no bigger than a loaf of bread, with enormous, serious brown eyes. It looked at me, tilted its head, and said, in a voice like a tiny, anxious aunt, "You look terrible."I screamed.The puppy yelped and tumbled backward off my chest. Something behind it squawked. Something else hissed. I sat bolt upright in a narrow wooden bed, my heart hammering, and the whole room came into focus at once.It was a small room with a slanted ceiling, painted a pale, chalky blue. There was a washstand, a wooden wardrobe, a round window that let in a stripe of morning light. And on every flat surface, there were animals.There was a grey kitten on the windowsill. A fat green lizard on
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