The atmosphere became much more relaxed with Alexander and Cameron left in the room. They were like old friends who had not seen each other for a long time. Alexander even grabbed a chair and sat down.
"How are you feeling?" He asked.
"My chest is still a little stuffy, and my brain is still foggy, but it's better than before," Cameron answered lightly. He stroked his chest with one hand and coughed lightly. It sounded suppressed, but he looked much better after.
"That's normal. After all, you've been asleep for so many days. Forget the damage to your body. Even a normal person would feel dazed after sleeping for so long," Alexander said.
After a pause, he changed the topic. "But you're not completely in the dark about everything, are you?"
Cameron did not speak but looked at him with heavy eyes.
"You know what I'm talking about," Alexander prodded.
After a moment of silence, Cameron heaved a long sigh and nodded. "Yeah. Although my body was out of control, I was still occasionally aware. It was a weird feeling like I couldn’t control my body. It was like I was an observer in my own life."
He raised his hand to look at it like it was something foreign. The confusion in his eyes was never before seen.
"It felt like a soul extraction?" Alexander said after some thought. He struggled to find a proper term to describe it. After all, he had never experienced it before.
However, Cameron's explanation sounded strange. He said he could not control his body but was not completely unaware of everything happening.
That meant that the third party did not entirely control his brain, nor did he lose his self-awareness. He knew what he was doing and what not to do, but he could not stop himself.
"Soul extraction?" Cameron echoed. It was a new term to him. He tilted his head with a frown as he thought about it. Then he nodded. "I think that's the exact term to describe it."
Although it sounded outrageous, there was no better way to coin it. He would not believe it if he did not experience it himself. However, it felt like his soul got pulled out of his body, making him an empty shell that would be at Rhea's mercy.
He even watched his body get injected with various drugs and watched himself take the pills she brought repeatedly—until Lily pulled him out of the dark. Shortly after, he suddenly returned to his body and blacked out.
All he did was sleep.
"What sort of poison was in my body?" He asked after returning to his senses.
He knew he had gotten poisoned but did not know what it was. Everything was a blur, and he could not remember it clearly.
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