I felt the worst pain in my head. There were many voices crashing into one another but I couldn’t grasp even one word.

Where was I?

My head was touching something hard. I was sitting, but my head was down. A table?

I tried to open my eyes. Like everywhere else in my body, those hurt too.

I heard some noises coming from afar. I needed to pull my head up.

With lots of effort, I managed to do it.

What I saw ...