The white lasted only an instant.
Then, the world slowly returned, and Lohan realized he was no longer in the office.
He was in a formless place, without floor and without ceiling, floating in a milky space where he could only feel his own existence, and far away, very far away, a bluish light pulsed at a slow, solemn rhythm, like the heart of a sleeping creature.
'I'm inside,' he thought, and his voice sounded different there, closer, as if he were speaking inside a cave.
Somewhere very distant, the part of him that had stayed in the office answered with a small pulse of warmth, the safety rope he had left tied to the surface, and he felt Lisa's voice arriving muffled, as if she were underwater. 'Halon? Can you hear me?' And one of his parts, the lightest one, answered for him, reassuring her.
It was working.
He advanced toward the light, and it was at that moment that the space around him suddenly changed.
