Phoenix Pt 2 Ch 04
Tanya woke up. She was in complete darkness, lying on something soft and bony that really stank. Like badly rotted meat, it left a heavy greasy lining in her mouth and throat that made her want to choke with every breath she took. She tried to sit up and slipped, her head banging on a very low, concrete ceiling. Blindly feeling around her environment, she realized with some dismay that she was in a tomb, or something equally horrid. There were several decomposed corpses within an arm-reach of her. She was glad now that she couldn’t see them – some of them had felt… incomplete. ‘Status report,’ she subvocalized, activating her body monitor. Her inner ear resonated with the response. ‘Blood pressure one sixty over ninety-five. Heart rate is one hundred ten. Your blood sugar …