Sunlight speared my retinas in the second I regained consciousness, and in the seconds after, I wished I hadn't opened my eyes at all. My vision was blurred, leading me to believe I had been drugged, but I felt absolutely fine. Fine, apart from the wires that appeared to flow like blood through my body. I couldn't feel them, but can you feel your veins? These wires seemed to have been there forever, but the sight of something so unnatural made my stomach heave, and then release a body full of murky green and brown onto the floor below me.

I was attached to the walls of the room I was encased in, a sick marionette show. Through the haze of my own warm breath, a television flicked on, and a voice replaced my own...