A hover-truck came speeding around the curve.
Leticia gasped, eyes wide, frozen like a deer.
The brakes screeched.
The truck swerved, but it was too close.
BANG!
Everything went dark.
—
Leticia opened her eyes slowly.
She was lying in a white hospital bed. There were tubes in her arms and beeping sounds around her.
Her head throbbed.
She blinked and sat up slowly.
A nurse rushed in. "Hey! Don't move too fast. You hit your head pretty hard."
Leticia stared at the nurse. Her lips parted.
"Where… am I?" she asked.
"You're in Tartarus Central Hospital," the nurse said kindly. "You were in an accident, but you're stable now. You'll be okay."
Leticia frowned. "Hospital? Accident?"
She tried to remember something.
Anything.
Her name… Leticia. Yes, that was her name.
She remembered running away from her home and then going to the mountains.
But then, nothing.
No faces.
No voices.
Just… blank.
