It's like waking from a deep slumber. Except when you try to see, you can't. My eyebrows raise

and the lids stretch painfully-- it's as though they're sealed. As I try harder it starts to hurt like

my very flesh is peeling open.

Then I hear the tearing. Crust incases my eyebrows like little mounds &

falls in bits down my cheeks. My face muscles just can't move that way, I guess.

As I move my fingers air starts filing new gaps, and I jolt (or something like it) when

a chunk of me chips off. But it doesn't hurt. Four digits meet my palm and crack.

Something inside.



I force my hands to wake

and tear my eyelids open.