[It's a short little bit, but I'm alive and awake, finally! ^^]
Liz's eyes slowly dragged open. Ow! She immediately closed them again. The light was way too bright, and she had a pounding headache. What the...? She groaned. She felt like someone had kindly slammed a sledgehammer into her skull.
"She's awake?"
"Liz! Liz, you okay?"
"C'mon, say something!"
"What happened?"
Her friends...? What was going on? The last thing she remembered was being in that bathtub, relaxing, talking to that bird...
"B-bird!" she croaked out. Bizarre. It felt like she hadn't used her voice in a week. Her throat throbbed in time with her head.