Udo Mayer opened his eyes and barely survived the wave of pain ravaging his head. Weak light from small regulated bulb hardly could be enough for even such a small cabin. Pilot headquarters on The Ring weren't much better than widely accepted standard, and except some place to sleep over the night until the next shift couldn't offer much more.
Slowly he started reminding himself the events of yesterday's evening; return from patrol, drinking at Employee's Rest, talk with Schmidt and unfinished Miner's Recharger. With difficult he fully woke up and forced himself to move his body to at the moment the sole proper place - under the shower. Sound of divided into myriads of small streams water hitting metal floor ripped his head apart.
After some time spent under the shower his senses liberated from alcohol's power enough to remind him he didn't have anything in his mouth since yesterday. He dressed uniform on still wet body and left his temporary room, heading towards the bar..
