The gentle swish, swish of something outside my consciousness brings me around, and the warm fluttering heat that seems to be growing over my back, heels, skull, and legs as my limbs tingle back to life, and I start to cough. Not warm enough to heat my lifeless corpse and the inner block of ice that is my organs.

My body wracks with the sudden crack of a violent choking fit that fully wakens me because it hurts like hell, as though there's a fire in my lungs. My eyes flutter open, through the hazy fog of an awful headache, to the point I'm nauseous with it, and my body...