C of the U: Why, why, why...Darkness. I need to return. I need to return. Hills. Why are there hills? There are hills, green hills. They are rolling under me, rolling like waves in the...what? I have to go home to...Her? Why? Run, run, run...
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"Darling? Are you all right?"
A nurse, dressed in a neat white dress, cap, and sneakers stands over me. I feel strange, like I was drowned, and then...
Huh? What the....?
The sea, the sea, it calls to me/It rolls and it rolls and it calls to me...
The nurse is back. I'm lying on one of those nasty, detergent smelling white hospital cots. It's strange. I'm aware of everything, everything, like my senses encompass space far wider than they should. The nurse says something, but all I hear are the lifting and lowering pitches and tones. Then, suddeny...
"Your girl is fine, though. We found her, lying unconcsious at the scene...A machine gun lay near by...Don't worry..."
She was...Alive? Was she still...No. And suddenly I understood. It was when...
"Nurse? Nurse!!"