The new awakening

The sound of the wind made me wake up. Or was it the sound of the sea? I could not say for sure.

In any case, it seemed to me as if I had just been born. What a strange thought.

Then the headache set in with such force that I thought my brain would explode.

I groaned and reflexively opened my eyes. Immediately, an additional sharp pain stabbed through my iris, triggered by the bright light that surrounded me.

I immediately closed my eyes again, but the waves of pain once triggered remained.

I felt tears running down my cheeks. I tried to wipe them away, but I couldn't move my hands or arms a millimeter.

"Was I paralyzed?"

The thought briefly pushed the pain to the back of my mind.

"Except that!"

No, it couldn't be that. Slowly, very slowly, the first shreds of memory came to the surface of my consciousness.

"Fractal-temporal time capsule consists of a multitude of nanobots that tap into the dark matter of the cosmos, creating an energy subspace that opens a cross-dimensional time path."

Then the next thought,"TALAH, guardian of the Star Walk."

"Majenna," it suddenly popped into my head. Where was Majenna?

Something had gone wrong. She had simply vanished into thin air.

One thing was certain; however, I was no longer in the fractal-temporal time capsule; that coffin-like monster composed entirely of nanites.

I still shivered afterwards when I thought of having really climbed into it.

But we had no other choice.

The henchmen of the Neensziss, who pompously called themselves 'Guardians of the Stars', had almost overwhelmed Majenna and me.

Slowly my mind cleared.

I became increasingly calm. ^

My thoughts focused now, after the memory of the last hours had settled in, on the here and now. Cautiously, I opened my eyes again, this time only to the extent that I could see my immediate surroundings reasonably clearly through the slits in my eyes.

I was undoubtedly lying on a white couch.

I could see my arms stretched out to my left and right, but I could not move them.

Then I saw them, two Neensziss. They wore strange transparent structures on their horny insect skulls that curved around their eyes and glowed in different colors.

When I looked a little closer, I noticed how their body outlines flickered slightly and somehow kept changing their consistency.

It was immediately clear to me that they were most likely two holographically constructed images and that they were not physically present.

They seemed to be conversing, although I did not hear any audible utterances.

But the mouth movements wer