How long would it be before the damage to my psyche was permanent? Aday? A week? I had no way of knowing. And with this being the firsttime Matthew ha... swapped with someone who wasn't dead a few minuteslater, I was pretty sure he was just as clueless.I lay there, trying to fight the wave of despair and fear thatcontinued to beat at my thoughts. I had to hang onto who I was. Eventhough my chances of winning were slim and none, I had to fight againstthe reactions that came naturally to Sasha. I. . Evil woman! ... Damned witch! ... No right to cry over me!... The thoughts entered his head like a raspy, wheezing voice in his ear, as if spoken by vocal cords already tattered with decomposition. ... Drove me to drink! ... Gambled to make back money you spent! ... Nothing good enough for you!... Richie tried to gasp in air, but his lungs felt like lead, as if his own diaphragm had withered away. His feet gave way to a wide, yawning darkness below him, fetid air drawing down in chilling. As I drive down the road I watch people leaving for work. I start to wonder how many people, neighbors and friends are into bondage and just don't tell anyone. People will talk around the preverbal water cooler about their sex lives, but you never hear them talk about bondage as a part of it. I pass a guy blowing a kiss to his wife as he gets into his car to leave. She looks like a fifties housewife. One that stays home and has an apron on and has dinner on the table for him when he gets home.. Beenshot was rapidly undressed, multiply IV’d, and had a not inconsiderable amount of his blood sent to lab for analysis. Radiographers provided views of his chest, and belly, so the physician could determine why his breath sounds, on his right, weren’t what were expected.So, it turns out, when you have a .351 inch hole in your chest, and another, perhaps 6/10 of an inch, on your back, the nigh-perfect theory of action The Architect designed into your breathing apparatus, doesn’t work so well..