74 Hacker Sledging

The lights flickered through my eyelids.

"Test," a voice said.

"Confirmed," a voice with a Russian accent said.

"The anaesthesia is wearing off," Dr Juan said. "Nurse watch his vitals."

I blinked and tried to sit up. A female said, "Easy now. Let me get you another pillow." She lifted my head and put a pillow under it. 

I could barely swivel my head to look at her breasts. "Man," I said. "I can't move."

"It's early days," she said. "The doctor said you might improve. Time will tell."

The Russian voice spoke from across the roam, "He won't if he's in the game the whole time. He needs physical therapy."

"Shh," she said. "Mind your own business. If Ben wants to do physical therapy, he can. The first stage is massaging and reflex therapy. It works on coma patients; it will work while he is in this game."

"He may as well be in a coma."