With her eyes closed, lost in an abyss of darkness and silence, when a distant murmur began to fill her ears. Initially, they were just undefined echoes, sounds that floated on the periphery of her consciousness. But gradually, these fragmented sounds began to solidify into something more recognizable: voices, machines, the sensation of a familiar place.

She blinked her eyes slowly, feeling the weight of her eyelids. Slowly, the world around her began to reveal itself. It was a white ...