Blackness. All was blackness. And Darkness. Blackness and Darkness. And Emptiness. Blackness, Darkness, Emptiness. Could Elliot Ness be too far behind? Or Loch Ness? But no, that was the delirium talking.
Then came the pain. Excruciating, unendurable pain. Pain that is not just felt, not just experienced. Pain was existence. Existence was Pain. Resistance was futile. Mercifully the blackness returned.
This cycle repeated itself, time and time again, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years. Time was a vague memory, an abstraction, a concept held by a long dead - or dying - sense of being. Pain. Blackness. Pain. Blackness. Pain... Pain... Pain.... Slowly, awareness returned. Something far in the distance. Out of reach, but coming closer. Grasping, clawing, desperately reaching for that sense of being... and there it was again. A sound. A.... voice?
"Is that a Farm Burger under Bob's face?" 2Chair asked, stumbling through the smoke and wreckage of Air Force 2Chair.