I opened my eyes very slowly, woken up by stabbing pain pulsing in my head. The only thing I was able to see in the first moment was the pure, crystal-like whiteness, so intensive and deep that you couldn’t confuse it with any other color. ‘Am I dead?’ I asked myself right away, thoroughly confused about the situation, hearing nothing more but the echo of my own heart, beating so fast, so unstoppably. The headache seemed to be fiercer and fiercer with each passing second; it was gradually invadi