Renee
My fingers were stiff around the pen, the numbers on the spreadsheet blurring into meaningless shapes. I blinked hard, trying to focus. Everything felt distant, like I was underwater. Details swam in and out of my vision, in and out of my consciousness. What was I supposed to be doing with this? How long had I been working on it? I tried to shake it off, but I couldn't; the edges of my mind numbed out while the fluorescent lights above buzzed like angry insects. I could hear the electricity and the wires buzzing, buzzing. Then I couldn't hear anything, as if I had been dunked in a deep silence. A deep pool through which. Only the loudest sounds could. Drift down. My vision went in and out.
I was cold. Not the kind of cold that came from the overactive AC, but the kind that settl
