The light coming from the gap between the curtains was like a hot four-inch nail shoved into my eye socket. I inhaled sharply and jerked away from it, rolling too enthusiastically and ending up on the floor. “Ow.” If not for the pain reverberating throughout my body – and the fact that I could breathe, I could have sworn that someone had shoved me in water. My head swam. I could feel acid working its way up my throat from …