[ Anna ] If I come to think again, I was not really unconscious the whole time. My eyes were shut, yes, but I knew what was happening around me. At least most times. I knew when someone's arms wrapped around me. I knew that the lights shifted overhead. I could scent something prominent.. like leather and detergent and then they were soon overlapped by a scent familiar to me, like vanilla on a crisp winter's day. I knew when I was let on a stretcher and I knew my head shifted to one side on the white sheets. Like I said, I knew a lot of things. I was just too tired to process them. Tired. That's a word I can wrap my head around. I felt incredibly weak as if every cell of my body was tearing apart and rejoining itself and then I suddenly felt numb. So numb that it scared me I was in a

