My eyes snapped open and I let out a groan. My mind felt fuzzy and I tried to remember what had happened as I moved a hand to the bridge of my nose. The haze over my mind slowly cleared and as I remembered what had happened, I shot up to my feet and quickly got into a fighting stance, but it was pointless as there was nothing around me but a landscape of pure white, and I don't mean that there was a lot of white or that it was bright. I mean that there was nothing but white, It was disorienting in a way, though I also found it odd that I was able to somehow tell the floor from the rest of the place.
The last thing that had happened had been my fight with Pate and his odd attack at the end. He'd touched my forehead and then I'd felt something familiar,
