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_The needle moved, probed ever so slightly, stimulating deep, deep in the soft, fragile tissue. seeking, probing, recording. A twinge, the barest trace of shock, a sharp series of firing nerve cells, a flicker of light, a picture -- Jeff Meyer shifted, his eyelids lowering very slightly, and a muscle in his jaw began twitching involuntarily._
He was floating gently on his back, resting on huge, fluffy, billowing clouds. He didn't know where he was, nor did he care. He just lay still, spinning gently, like a man in free fall, feeling the gentle clouds around him pressing him downward and downward. His eyes were closed tightly -- so tightly that no ray of light might leak in. He knew as he floated that whatever happened, he dare not open them.