Chapter 1121 A Daughter's Discovery:>Ep4

• I don't know how long it lasted -- maybe a minute, maybe a thousand years. My limbs ached from fighting the straps and I could hear Luke's shrill screams...or were they mine? In my anguish I perceived all that I had ever known being sucked out of my brain -- a jumble of fleeting pictures and a myriad of numbers and names; times and dates and scents and faces; music and memories. It was all drawn from me in a whirling cloud like a shattered house in a tornado -- hanging there in a dark cloud of gnats swarming over a stagnant lake. My lips ran red with blood where I had bitten them and my brain was baking in my skull like a dry pot over a fire...and I knew that I would die -- that my heart and lungs and brain could no longer stand the onslaught and they would burst like overripe Satsuma plums in the twisted vessel of my body.
• And a nanosecond before my death the pain was suddenly gone and a great peace descended. My head throbbed briefly, a little spasm as the synapses of my mind clicked back into place, and in that moment it was if I could see into my own brain.
• And it was astonishing, for the confusion and disfunction of my whole life had been swept away. and the labyrinthine coils of grey matter lay soft and open like a fertile field on a summer's day. All that I had ever known was now stored in just one corner of my mind and I could understand and remember every detail and emotion that I had ever experienced, and recall at will the most minute factor of my life.