Before he felt anything else, Lex heard himself groan. Slowly, sensation returned to him and he felt that his entire body was incredibly stiff. At the same time, he felt incredibly bloated, as if he had been eating nonstop for days.
He groaned again as he slowly brought his hands to wipe the sand from his eyes.
"What the hell happened?" he managed to mumble as he opened his eyes, and discovered that his vision was blurry. He was disoriented, nauseous, and his neck was killing him. It felt like he was back in college.
Unfortunately, he got no reply to his question, so he could only hold on while his body recovered.
Fortunately, his debilitated state did not last long. In a few minutes his vision cleared up and all his ailments seemed to fade.
He slapped his hand onto the floor to pick himself up, and to his great surprise, he noticed a very pale and extremely see-through layer of skin covering it.
