#CHAPTER 110: The Loss

FELIX My sleep was dark and dreamless. Quiet, as if I was underwater. I could vaguely hear someone saying my name in the distance, but it was so far and it was so peaceful where I was… “Felix. Felix. Wake up, man, you have to wake up.” Somewhere in my dream, someone was calling my name. There had never been any other presence in my dreamscape. Was I dead? Was this the afterlife? “Felix. Felix, please.” The world was shaking. Wait, no, I was shaking–or rather, someone was shaking me. I wasn’t dreaming, or dead. Someone was trying to get my attention. It took all of my strength, but I opened my heavy eyes. The world felt out of focus, hazy, but I could make out the shape of a person standing above my bed. Mila? No, this was a man. Whoever it was reached down and shook me again. “Jeez, what did they give you? C’mon Felix, we have to get out of here.” I knew that voice. I’d know it anywhere. The world came into focus, an