The lights in the room were incredibly, painfully bright. They flared before my eyes like supernovas, pulsing, beating, hammering into my brain…or maybe that was just the gash that snaked from my hairline to my eyebrow leaking blood.

I blinked once. Twice. The red light of the camera swam in my vision, doubling, tripling, then returning back to normal as a shadow moved behind it.

“Welcome back.”...