Entspannen

Adam’s eyes briefly flickered open.

“What’s happening to me?” He asked in a weak voice as he caught a glimpse of a man with green skin wearing a lab coat poking at him with medical instruments, not realizing his own brain was presently exposed to open air while being injected with various fluids.

“Entspannen, mein Freund,” Doctor Gunther Bismark said in a calm, measured tone, “I apologize that none of this is ideal. But when I heard you had perished, I came as quick as I could.”

Adam couldn’t respond, but he did flinch when he heard the word “perish.” The reaction was not lost on Dr. Bismark.

“Yes, you were dead. It was only a minor inconvenience. Fortunately, the technology has progressed significantly since my own incident. They couldn’t stop the rot once my brain was placed in this new body all those years ago. I had to go into hiding. But you? Well, no one will notice anything once I am complete here. Your brain will be in this new body, and no one will notice anything is amiss. Well, YOU might notice something is off. How can I say this? You’re new body is quite different from your old one. I do apologize for that fact, but it is still quite good to see that I wasn’t too late to save you.”