User blog comment:Affectos/Role-Play 2: An Agent Paradise/@comment-1674153-20130723232658/@comment-1674153-20130724222727

The other-Aden yelped in pain, grabbing his foot and cursing. Aden, however, only felt a faint ghost of pain - possibly just sympathy.

As the other Aden began hopped on his good foot, the others noticed that while he may have looked like Aden physically, he certainly wasn't the same. For one, he didn't wear glasses, and his clothes looked rather expensive, in a style that wasn't all too similiar to Aden's.

"What the fuck was that for!?" He demanded to know, angry.

...

Sandy must have passed out again, or not have remained aware of his surroundings, because he suddenly realized he was lying in some sort of infirmary or hospital, a nurse helping him drink a cup of water. He dutifully swallowed, and looked around. The nurse seemed to notice he was focused, and so began to talk.

"Do you remember what happened?" she asked, gently.

Sandy tried to think, tried to remember what had happened, if anything had happened, to get him to where he was. It came in startling detail - the steam, the fear, the iron grip crushing his throat. Sandy's hands flew up around his neck, as if to protect it from further threat.

The nurse gently hushed him and said, "It's okay, you're safe. You may feel a little soreness, but thankfully you got out of the grip before the oxygen was fully cut off. There was no brain damage."

Sandy forced himself to focus on that, focus that he was still there, alive. The mysterious force that had tried to hurt him wasn't with him now.

Who was it, though? Was it an artifact? Or a sinister lunatic sans mystical help? Sandy's sense of duty pushed him from the bed, towards the door. But the nurse pulled him back.

"Whoa!" she said, "Hold on! We'd still like to run a few tests, just to be sure you weren't injured." Sandy started to shake his head, but the nurse gave him a look that stalled him and made him slowly lay back down on the cushioned table he had been sitting on.

Fine...he thought, witheringly.