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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majin" data-source="post: 2925781" data-attributes="member: 13265">"I blacked out and don't remember anything that specific," Mary answers with a frown. Suddenly, the beeping from the machines increases and a buzzer sounds. The man in the other bed cries out briefly and then his face goes slack. Sara yelps and runs out of the room to get a nurse; The noise from the machines is terrible, a cacophony of electronic sounds that make no sense. Two nurses and a doctor rush in, followed by Sara. The staff begins emergency procedures and goes straight to defibrillation. As they use the paddles to jolt electricity into the old man's body, the lights in the room go out with each burst. Sara watches the scene, aghast. Mary continues staring at you. Then she nods at the television on the wall behind you.As the lights go up and down and the man's body spasms, the television is shorting out. Images of a ballet dissolve into static, and the sound of a film projector comes through. Then the screen shows the hospital room, as if a camera were mounted inside the television. You see yourselves around the bed, and the pulsing lights, and Mary staring. A blurry figure stands next to Mary, with indistinct hands stroking her face. Then the screen explodes in a burst of electricity, sending fragments of glass blowing into the room. A nurse screams.The old man is dead. The doctor calls the time of death. He gestures at the television and tells a nurse, "Get Robert to fix that damned thing," he says, frustrated. [sblock]Sorry for the delay all, I haven't been feeling that well lately.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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