Chapter 110: Joint Business

VOLUME FIVE: JOINT BUSINESS

Imogen

The fog surrounding my thoughts slowly lifted, leaving me swaying. The water cleared from my surroundings and the dream where I’d been a mermaid swimming with the seahorses stopped making sense. We were having such a pleasant afternoon. Why did it have to end? I made a kickass mermaid.

What had I been doing before I turned into a mermaid?

The further away from the dream I swam, the more my memories returned.

And the smell. Icky, gross, moldy, wet smells filled my nose.

I wasn’t a mermaid. No.

So what happened to me?

A parking garage. My hospital badge looped around my neck. A man standing next to my car.

His question. If I was a nurse.

My response. Yes.

Then the poke of a needle.

And then… nothing. Darkness until I met with the mermaids and seahorses.

Something more hovered in the recesses of my mind, but I couldn’t pull the hazy details together.