Alice
For several seconds the world disappeared from my senses, I felt like I had been dropped in a vacuum and that my mind was taking forever to process a thought.
"Stand up," I told myself.
"Open your eyes"
"You will die, open your eyes"
I tried to wake myself and reconnect with my body, but the only effect my words had was an echo in the vacuum.
They bounced all around me, echoing for seconds before dying out.
Blake had no idea how long he stayed kneeling and disoriented, but he knew that the thing that finally revived his senses and had them thinking straight was a scream from Lena.
Lena's scream somehow found its way into the perilous world Blake had been put in and had him snapping his eyes back to reality.
With the desire to live past today blazing within him, Blake flicked his eyes open and when he felt lethal danger from his left, he had a vertical cut appear across his left arm.