In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

GULAG
Medical people shuffled around the vast brightly lit room in
paper shoes, their heads covered in paper shower caps topped with
noise-canceling headphones, their faces hidden by masks. Her scalp felt
cold, like after a buzz cut and she was restrained to the stretcher by a
thick band around her middle, suggesting a rough ride ahead. A pair of
gloved hands stretched out her arm and tapped the thin plastic tube
that fed her vein. A pair of eyes smiled at her from behind their masked
headset and said,
"We're going to give you a little sleepy cocktail, okay?"
“Sleep? But I just was...”
In the background, two medics listlessly assembled shiny
objects on a table, but snapped to as soon as another green gowned and
masked figure hurried in. Impossible to mistake that clop clop even
muffled by paper overshoes.
"Music!"
The biggest nurse lumbered over and turned it on. The smiling
masked man knocked into the enormous lamp that hovered over her as
he tried to stand up. A second later she felt a rubbery thing over her
nose and mouth, and saw Züt's eyes on the other side of the stretcher,
peering into hers as she breathed in a cool stream of chemicals. Her
killer piece crescendoed through the room, the green crowd closed in
around her as a spotlight blast on over her head, and she fell into
darkness.
The next thing Penny saw was a slash of light in a darkened
room. She couldn't move her head at all. It felt locked to the bed by
some kind of brace that was anchored to various spots on and into her
skull, and although the skull itself didn't hurt, its contents did. Above
her eyes she could see the pale edge of the bandage that wrapped
around her head. Her scalp pulsed and tingled with an odd electrical
zap that did not feel entirely biological. Her hands were strapped to the
sides of the bed, so she couldn't check any of this out, but was
reassured by wiggling of her fingers and toes, which meant that at least
she wasn't paralyzed.
Züt clattered in. "Zat was a close call, you know drugs do
absolutely nutting for your intelligence, so vot's zuh story?"
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