Part 3

" I wake and open my eyes. And for  moment I panic.

I'm blind. Then I remember the darkness. It's strange, but it's blacker with my eyes open. When they're closed, I see the pulses and swirls of my blood, fireworks against my eyelids, and I remember this one time, when I was lying under the sun with my eyes closed, with Tintin nearby, floating on a rich man's pool, drunk on stolen liquor.

Only here, in the hospital the, there is no sun.

Here, when my eyes are open, I see nothing." The book " In Darkness" it has to main characters, the first is Shorty and the second is Toussaint. But in this part of the book the story teller is Shorty and you can obviously tell its in first person. In this part of the book Shorty wakes up from his dream also explains how trapped he is in the hospital and how dark it is, then he flashes back to the gold old days when his friend was floating in a rich man's pool while getting drunk with a stolen bottle of liquor. He gives so many details on how miserable his life is now after the eartquake.