Sunlight.

Alex bolted upright, perhaps too fast. her head spun and she swooned again, falling back into what must've been dirt. Dirt? Wait... Her eyes fluttered open and she did not make the mistake of sitting up again. Grass. Moist, intensely green grass. Water, too. Sunlight flickered off of the softly rippling wetness that did not even crest the top of the grass. Was she drugged. Why did she feel so weird and sluggish. Her thoughts muddled and she raised an arm to her face slowly, smearing a handprint of mud across her forehead. However, the wetness was cool and welcome. 

She almost drifted back off, that is, until that shrill feminine voice picked up. Her eyes drifted open, his vision swimming surely as if she were in sea on choppy water. Her hair was in her face, and she slowly pulled herself into a sitting position to look around. it was then that her memory came back and the fuzziness of the sleep or the drugs was washed away in a sudden flurry of panic. Where... the... HELL WAS THIS!?

She jumped to her feet in one fluid motion, eyes darting around frantically for some sign of recognition. How did she get here, where was she, what... just what!? She felt a tingling along her back and realized she had been laying in inch-deep water, and she was soaked. She screamed, half in frustration and half in fear, drowning out the voice she had been paying absolutely no attention to. She stomped around in the water in a fit, then seemed to suddenly come back to her senses.

"...kill someone within twenty-four hours and take a temporary antidote..." What the fuck? "Vomiting, cramps, bleeding from the eyes and nose, oh, and fingernails! Within six hours of that, you'll die!" WHAT THE FUCK!?

Alex was fanning her face frantically at this point, slowly turning in circles trying to find the source of the voice. She began to slowly wander in the direction it was coming from. What was this bitch talking about? Poison, killing people? Whoever was pulling this prank did not have a good sense of humor. it was a prank right...? Yeah it had to be, some jerk with a sick sense of humor. Probably her ex boyfriend trying to get back at her.

"Oh you dick, you fucking dick..." She mumbled, nearly hysterically, to herself and she trudged through the marsh. The voice faded back into her attention again just before it turned off.

"Look in your left and right pocket. You'll find one super-important thing!"

Alex reached into her pockets at the same time the voice chimed in about the items. The card she just gave a disgusted look at and stuffed back into her pocket. The tape recorder she stared at curiously. Maybe there was a message on here that would explain things...? She hit the play button, looking up from the recorder as it started playing, and looking across the grass to one of the very strange-looking birds....

"Oh, almost forgot! Make sure to check near you, you might find an item that will help you!"

What. The. Fuck.