The Awakening

[AsherMir]

The Awakening

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Elias awakens with all of a sudden in an unknown place. it's a quiet room, with pale walls, but he doesn't recognize it. Anxiety raises in him, because he remembers that he is late to submit his last report after the last patrol in NB. Maybe he fainted from tiredness? Then he realizes that he has several medical instruments around him. That's so confusing. He gets up struggling, from the bed, with a weird huge feeling of weakness.
"Maybe it's because i haven't done much workout lately" he thinks. But he is definitely too tired.
Then he crosses his own gaze in a mirror, and he's kinda petrified: a thick and long beard such as has never seen himself with before. Why? Elias always shaves. What happened? Even more worried and incredulous at all these oddities, he begins to suspect and fear what may have really happened to him. He can't find his phone anymore, not even the neural link. Heading towards the lobby of the facility, he finally finds a terminal. The day he reads scares him between a mixture of fear and the feeling of having lost a lot along the way: 5 years have passed.
A nurse suddenly reaches him. She seems slightly happy with his awakening.
After helping him settling down, she consulted the logs of the patient:

"It's definitely a miracle you are still alive after everything that happened to you. The violent nature of the accident would have easily been fatal in most cases. Do you remember who you are?"

A doctor shows up. A bunch of checks up and few quick operations on the terminal: "Herr Köetz, i am Doctor Muller. I'm delighted to know you are back with us. We've had worst cases for sure, but yours was a delicate one as well. I've checked the logs about you in the database. What's the last thing you remember?"

"Hmm... Probably something like a ship?"

"Yes, you were a pilot for the Rheinwehr"

Elias felt a bunch of memories slowly unlocking.

"It seems that after you took part in a war operation, your vessel got damaged but you managed to survive in your escape pod. Here says that the medical tests done after that accident were all negative."

"Then what's happened"

"What they didn't notice is that you actually had a concussion. A metal plate of the vessel went directly on the temporal lobe, and there was probably a certain amount of internal bleeding from what i read here. And in the following weeks it got worse and worse, until one day your colleagues found you lying on the ground of the office."

With a scolding tone he adds: "More timely check ups during that period would have definitely saved you from this..."

"You also got transferred from the military hospital of Neu Berlin one year after the accident. They really needed space there..."

Elias notices something between sarcasm and contempt in the doctor's words. But everything is already confusing at the moment, so he doesn't ask about it. It will be something to discover later.

"Anyway. Follow the rehab process, but from what i see here you're gonna be fine very soon.
About the present, everything could feel weird at the beginning. I don't see much contacts in your files here. I'd say your best bet would be to get in touch with your colleagues. Viel Glück."
They leave. Elias sits for few minutes, pondering what just has happened. But everything feels too complex right now.

Thus he goes for a walk outside his room. The clinic looks very elegant. The technology definitely went further meanwhile.

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Few days later, Elias is ready to see Planet Neu Berlin's sunlight, once again.