[ The air is freezing cold, wind screaming in his ears, chest seized with panic -
His mouth is dry, breaths short and painful with a pressure at his sides, vision blurry even as a harsh light opens up around him like a heat lamp. Air forces back out his lungs in a couple of raspy coughs and his hands reach out to grip the sides of - a pod? His senses are rapidly recovering. The sun beats down on his face, a light blinking at his wrist - his forearm, and the rest of him are decked out in some kind of armor. None of that matches up with what he remembers last.
Neither does the person standing right in front of him, offering a hand. Even in his confusion he takes it without thought, accepting his friend's arm to pull himself out of the pod. That confusion is clear on his face though, a deep crease at his brow and his lips slightly parted before he answers in their usual way, only this time tinged with more uncertainty than humor: ]
Don't remember falling asleep.
[ It'd been the other way around. Something in his chest twists.
SURPRIIIIIIISE....womp womp
His mouth is dry, breaths short and painful with a pressure at his sides, vision blurry even as a harsh light opens up around him like a heat lamp. Air forces back out his lungs in a couple of raspy coughs and his hands reach out to grip the sides of - a pod? His senses are rapidly recovering. The sun beats down on his face, a light blinking at his wrist - his forearm, and the rest of him are decked out in some kind of armor. None of that matches up with what he remembers last.
Neither does the person standing right in front of him, offering a hand. Even in his confusion he takes it without thought, accepting his friend's arm to pull himself out of the pod. That confusion is clear on his face though, a deep crease at his brow and his lips slightly parted before he answers in their usual way, only this time tinged with more uncertainty than humor: ]
Don't remember falling asleep.
[ It'd been the other way around. Something in his chest twists.
Maybe he really did doze off. ]