*Beep!* *Beep!* *Beep!*
Just when all hope vanished into the void, suddenly vague and faint flashes of light, accompanied by a weird, high-pitched buzzing noise, erupted to slowly push the darkness away!
John was reluctant to die, not in this way, and certainly not at the hands of a ghost from his past. Even if Mark's words and scheme looked absolute and perfect, a raw, primal will was swelling inside of him.
As his consciousness was fading away, and he saw the darkness invading and taking over his world, he saw a sudden, blinding light at the end of the tunnel
He saw a blurred face of a nurse, her lips moving in words he couldn't quite hear over the rushing of blood in his ears. Then, his sight fell on a monitor, the kind found in a high-intensity care unit.
