Return from the Realms of Twilight

I felt darkness all around me.

I felt like I was floating.

I felt like I was encased in a cocoon that protected me, comforting me.

Then I felt the cocoon dissolve as if I was emerging reborn as a butterfly.

Somehow that blissful feeling felt wrong, incorrect.

It was as though the darkness was masquerading as light.

Slowly my conscious returned to the outside world. I felt a softness surrounding me, something I had not felt in a long time.

The softness of bed.

As if my mind would let me sleep no longer, my eyes opened. I was in an unfamiliar room.

I looked around only to see that which made my blood cold and my heart stop for a moment.

"Good morning, or rather good afternoon," a familiar voice called out to me.