When Sinjir wakes up, he is not: 1) dead, 2) nauseated, or 3) in a lot of agonizing pain. He is also 4) not anywhere familiar, something that he registers first through smell (electronics, dust, polish, metal), and then through slow blinking.
He is also 5) sobered up. Or at least the fuzz of the alcohol has significantly subsided. Adrenaline wouldn't do that, so either he's been unconscious for a while, or something odd's happened. He doesn't feel like he's been unconscious for a while. And if he were, then the concussion would have to be severe, or he'd have to feel the aftereffects of some kind of drug. He feels neither.
This doesn't make any sense.
He reaches a hand up to his head. No blood, nothing, but he remembers an explosion of pain and stars before unconsciousness.
"Does your attention extend to questions?" asks Sinjir. "For example, like 'what just happened', or 'how am I not concussed'?" Sinjir's accent is precise and crisp: Imperial, really, even though there aren't so much Imperials around anymore. It sounds like he comes from a Core world, sophisticated.
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He is also 5) sobered up. Or at least the fuzz of the alcohol has significantly subsided. Adrenaline wouldn't do that, so either he's been unconscious for a while, or something odd's happened. He doesn't feel like he's been unconscious for a while. And if he were, then the concussion would have to be severe, or he'd have to feel the aftereffects of some kind of drug. He feels neither.
This doesn't make any sense.
He reaches a hand up to his head. No blood, nothing, but he remembers an explosion of pain and stars before unconsciousness.
"Does your attention extend to questions?" asks Sinjir. "For example, like 'what just happened', or 'how am I not concussed'?" Sinjir's accent is precise and crisp: Imperial, really, even though there aren't so much Imperials around anymore. It sounds like he comes from a Core world, sophisticated.