Waking up

Gasping for air, Mark woke up inside on a hospital bed. Looking around, he noticed curtains surrounded, and they attached his hand to a pipe leading to a blood bag. He tried to lift his upper body, but the pain was too much to handle. He noticed the wounds on his hands were already recovered to their original state.

He started wondering about the strange dream which he experienced before. He slowly lifted his right arm and touched his chest to feel anything in particular due to the silver orb which went into him. He noticed they changed his others and now he was in hospital attire.

"I heard the mechanics were able to make changes to the hotel refrigerators such that they were in the right Temperature to keep the medical needs."

Hearing a female voice outside the curtain, Mark looked towards the direction. He could hear 2 footsteps and it seemed like people who worked here.

" Oh! That's a very good thing. The blood bags in which the military needed to be kept at the right temperature for storage. Now the burden has decreased by a lot by them doing this."

"Yes, and the patient here also needed many blood bags to cover for his loss of blood when the military brought him back. His survival itself was no less than a miracle, according to the doctor." Opening the curtain in front of Mark's bed, said a lady who had a tray of medical necessities in her hand.

The other woman looked over and noticed Mark was awake and quickly shook the other pointing at him and said, "He is awake."

Not believing her, she turned around saying, "What the doctor said..." stopping her sentence when she noticed Mark's eyes were open and rushed to his side.

"Are you alright Sir? Call the doctor." Concerned about him and asked the other woman.

Barely nodding his head, Mark conveyed he was alright, and the nurse exhaled in relief. She slowly supported Mark to sit up by leaning his back against the wall. Mark grit his teeth in pain.

After a while, a female wearing a white coat rushed near him. She had excitement written all over her face as she checked out his body, testing his condition. Mark grimaced at the pressure she was keeping on his body and the pain which came with it. Noticing his expression, the doctor immediately stopped and introduced herself, "Hello, my name is Susan bank. I was treating you for the past three days here in the settlement."

Mark was a bit caught off guard by her surname bank, which seemed funny but pushed away from the thought and asked, which really surprised him, "Three days?" Barely audible.

"Ah yes Mr. Mark, you were out cold for three days when you were brought here by the military rescue team and we have been treating you since then." Explained to him carefully.

Mark nodded and Susan slowly continued checking the monitors around him or any changes and if he was fine. As she continued to examine another 3 people came through the curtain and into the small area which was now filled with people.

He noticed it was an old man with a white beard and hair; He peeked over him and found Denton and Steve behind him. Denton waved his hand while Steve gave a nod to him. He focused his attention back to the man in front as he heard him speak. "Seems like you are awake, Mark. My name is Donald Cox and am one of the generals in this camp. I heard from my son Denton here that you helped a lot and saved them many times."

Mark simply shook his head and wanted to say he had his reasons but held back and said, "It's ok, General."

"I thought you would stay unconscious a while longer after noticing your previous condition when you were bought here. But it seems like you had a good recovery." noticing his previous wounds closed up without a scar.

Mark nodded his head as it also surprised him when he found his wounds already close and by the looks of it his body is now healing a bit faster than an average human body. The general then took his leave and went out of the room along with the doctor and Steve behind him, leaving only Denton behind.

"So how is your body now?" starting the conversation.

"Barely able to sit. It aches all over. How is the camp?"

"It is good. The military took over a housing society as its primary base right now and is building around it. As you can see, we are short on staff for various things like medical and people who can fight. So they started a temporary exercise for the people."

"They are encouraging the people to choose one thing or the other to help the camp around. Based on how helpful and achievements they rank up, they are various things they can ask for."

Mark nodded as he heard the military's decision on how to manage things. This way the people can do some work to contribute to the lack of human resources they would face about now.

As Mark continued to converse with Denton, he noticed something strange and asked, "Why isn't Mona here? Is she sick?" he expected both of them to meet him, but only noticing Denton, it spiked his curiosity