Victim zero

All the pain subsided, and I could no longer feel my body...
All sounds fell silent, so I couldn't even hear my own breath...
Even my eyes could see nothing but utter blackness.
And within seconds, a cacophony of hundreds of voices flooded my mind, as if I could hear everything being said in our entire neighborhood—children, women, the elderly, and men—as if they were all around me in my room: every meowing cat, every creaking door, every radio in a car. Then, amidst all that noise, one voice stood out, unique and ...