[ It feels strange to walk, so he does it slowly. It takes him a moment to realize it's because he's wearing shoes for the first time since he arrived at Narkina 5.
Is he losing his mind? Did they break him? Is he about to get fried when he walks on the hot floor? He rubs his head, fighting a rising panic as he wonders if each step will be his last. He will be woken from his dream by an electrical charge running through the soles of his feet and stopping his heart before he even realizes what's happening. Another corpse stinking up the place until the next shift.
The sickening terror is so all-consuming he almost trips over Eddie before he realizes he's there. He pauses a moment, because he doesn't recognize this man. And he has memorized the faces of every man on his floor. None of them look like this. He's fairly certain he's never seen this person in his life. Which means he's either not dreaming, or hallucinating whole new people. ]
Are you real?
[ The question bursts out of him before he can come up with a more subtle way to find out. ]
A Big Mess
Is he losing his mind? Did they break him? Is he about to get fried when he walks on the hot floor? He rubs his head, fighting a rising panic as he wonders if each step will be his last. He will be woken from his dream by an electrical charge running through the soles of his feet and stopping his heart before he even realizes what's happening. Another corpse stinking up the place until the next shift.
The sickening terror is so all-consuming he almost trips over Eddie before he realizes he's there. He pauses a moment, because he doesn't recognize this man. And he has memorized the faces of every man on his floor. None of them look like this. He's fairly certain he's never seen this person in his life. Which means he's either not dreaming, or hallucinating whole new people. ]
Are you real?
[ The question bursts out of him before he can come up with a more subtle way to find out. ]