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Date Posted: 15:40:17 03/06/02 Wed
Author: Human
Subject: More oddness...

My tired, airless lungs gasped. I was spinning around and around in Z-space. I could see directly into my numb hands. I could see the flesh and bone and arteries. My eyes were blurry, and my heart was slowing, oxygenless. I shook my head jerkily. I knew that, if I passed out, I'd die. But if I managed to stay awake, I might have a chance at staying alive. My eyes started to close, and I had to concentrate to keep them from doing so.

I was floating, floating away...

I forced out a groan, incredibly loud in my deafened ears. The sound brought me to my senses. No air. None. Zero. Zilch. Airless. I had been nearly five minutes without air. Pain, great pain, I thought blearily, feeling my heart and my lungs collapse. Somehow I managed to remember the Gift. Groping for it, I revived my fingers just enough to hold it. I couldn't speak, so I thought, Olashi lungs and heart. Koratian eyes and hearing. Immediately I could see, and hear the renewed pounding of my heart. Temporarily I had a lungful of air. I was still alive... for now. My new eyes didn't perceive the colour white, so instead of the milky blankness, was bleish. Er, brown-blue-yellow, though that's a poor comparison. A colour only Korats see, though I was seeing it now. Very strange. I could tell that my blood was darker, a maroon colour.

Moving, I stretched painfully. I may've solved my problem, but the solution was only temporary; I could not survive in Z-space much longer. Already my air was gone, and my heart slowed again. I need to contact a Portal, I thought grimly. But how?

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