Captain Rodgers

After what feels like a very long, deep sleep, you are gradually regaining your senses. You feel quite groggy and disoriented, but a cool dampness beneath you jars you into reality. When you look down, you find you have been lying on a carpet of damp moss. Night is falling, and it is hard to make out your surroundings in the gathering darkness, but you can tell you're in the middle of a swamp. Lost! As the thought rushes through your mind, your heart takes a giant leap.

And, worse than not knowing where you are, you can't seem to figure out who you are. As you desperately think back, you remember hearing a screech, then the sound of glass shattering into a million tiny pieces. A name! Captain Rodgers. But what does it mean? Who is this Captain Rodgers person? Something strange has happened. You reach up to brush your hair back, and you feel something sticky on your forehead. You quickly bring your hand down and find blood on your fingers. Luckily, the wound seems relatively minor. You are able to wash the blood away with your handkerchief.

With little else to occupy your mind besides unanswered questions, you are overwhelmed with a feeling of loneliness. A sense of dread envelops you. You wonder what is going on. Rather than wasting your time trying to understand what's happened, you know the best thing to do is find a way out of this mess. You are very hungry and you can't last forever without sustenance. As you wander through the swamp, you find yourself continually looking up at the bright stars in the clear night sky. To the west, the last remnants of a warm sunset cling to the rapidly approaching darkness, a familiar darkness. The overwhelming urge to reach out into space confuses you. It is as though someone is calling for help. Something is certainly driving you, but first you must find your way out of this swamp, one step at a time. After that, maybe you will have time to figure out who you are and what's going on!