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It was a sheer silk negligee. It had a low-cut top and rode high up the thigh. It was sexy. Not quite the kind of gown they usually made patients wear in hospitals…
So maybe they ran out of the usual ones…
Ran out of gowns and were now resorting to sexy negligee?
Yeah…
Just the idea made me laugh.
I felt at my arms.
No wires pierced my skin. No beeping machines checked my heart rate.
There were no machines full stop.
But I did have something attached to my throat. It had a hard edge like a piece of plastic. I daren’t take it off in case I damaged it or hurt myself.
“Hello?” I said, testing my voice. “Hello, hello?”
My voice sounded normal and my throat didn’t hurt. What was the purpose of this thing? I decided to leave it on. It wasn’t doing any harm and removing it could only cause trouble.
I got a better look at the room. I noticed it was a little too clean to be a hospital. The surfaces were perfectly white without scuff mark or blemish.
I pushed myself up onto my feet and felt relieved they could take my weight. So long as I was upwardly mobile, I could get some help.
I moved for the door.
And immediately hit a snag.
There was no door.
I shook my head. I must be mistaken. Every room had a door. How else were you supposed to get inside it?
How had I gotten inside it?
“What the hell?” I said.
I had to be seeing things. You couldn’t crash in a deep ravine without a little temporary damage. My senses were playing tricks on me. That’s all.
I moved for the widest stretch of wall on the opposite side of the room to my bed and ran my hands over it, looking for the door’s edges. It’d just been well made, that’s all. A futuristic design where the door was perfectly flush with the wall. It saved on space, I told myself. Very clever.
I felt nothing with the palm of my hand. I clawed my fingers and gently ran them over the wall from one side to the other. My nails would catch on the seam and the door would be revealed.
And…
Nothing.
No edges, no handle.
Nothing.
But there was more than one blank surface where the door could be.
I moved to the other two big sections and ran my hands over them.
Again, I felt nothing.
The room had no door.
