I wish to be a knight to help heaven.

The last thing he saw was a flare off of fading vision, and the gorgeous being that he just said his last words to. His living feeling then fell away, is this what cold was?

..and why was he still…………….

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Everything was bright here. Did he remember when he opened his eyes? Something felt off, but looking around in this white haze that was clearing off, as he thought he saw two beings looking over some kind of devices, things that floated? Wait a…

A strange shimmer was felt going up and down his body. Strange beeping sounds he never head before kept echoing all around him. Apparently hearing was going in stride with sight, as sharpening edges started seeing more details of various colors from the strangest of artifices that lined all the walls. The light seemed to be as bright as sunlight on a summer Montana day, but it came from the walls and ceiling…. The floor… the very air in fact.

Then a green-blue line zipped down across his face, not too fast. A humming sound came with it.

Confusion came to his mind, he felt thinking come to the fore. In fact he realized this as if thinking wasn’t capable beforehand. What the heck is going…?

The sounds most strange to him.. (must be a him he thought..) ..grew clear as crystal. Everything did…

“His mind is near eighty percent to active stage.”

“Acknowledged..”

He tried to crane his neck to the voices, both female as much as sonnets go, but found he couldn’t move anything.

“Nervous system still inactive below the thirty percentile.”

“He’ll live with that for another few minutes.”

A hasteful, growing into a mania, sense of entrapment started to come over him. Confusion didn’t help one iota, and now that last edgy voice made it all worse. Bad enough he couldn’t fully understand anything at all, pinned down and all. He felt it was necessary to find an anchor to control his emotions with, and for some reason remembered his old drill instructor in Fort Knox. As stable a rock as he had seen of anyone aside from that oriental sensei he knew of.