It wasn't until the inorganic, hard thud of his back hitting the wooden bed frame as he sat up that Eocene realized there was something very wrong. Wrong with -him-. While resting motionless against the head frame Eocene dared not open his eyes – yet. He couldn't tell whether or not his body was registering touch within the usual parameters that were familiar to him, or if he'd lost his sense of touch entirely.
That wasn't normal.
He clutched the sheets of his bed. No. No, that didn't feel right at all. Though his mouth was particularly dry Eocene tried to swallow to calm his nerves before finally mustering the courage to open his eyes.
Those weren't his sheets. He looked up – the walls, the furniture – then around, none of it was the same. None of it was his. This was not his home, and he felt-- Eocene looked down and brought his hands up from beneath the covers. He had no fur, like a human, though his fingers were uniquely segmented and his hand was separated from his wrist by a bulbous sphere that seemed to allow for total flexibility. He gazed at the foreign appendage – his appendage now – carefully before letting his hand drop awkwardly back, the palm facing up, while he experimentally spun it around horizontally like a propeller.
This wasn't his body.
There was something distinctly -not- okay about that, and panic quickly replaced confusion. Yanking the covers off of himself, Eocene jumped out of the bed he knew was not his own only to slip on his strange new feet that were also attached to his body with bizarre ball joints.
He yelped and hit the floor with a loud, heavy crash. Panicking more, Eocene tried to pull himself back up – his natural grace completely gone now – only to find that his left hand and right leg had completely separated itself from his body!
There seemed to be no pain, and even though the blind panic of his limbs resting a foot away from him, Eocene could swear he could see them still moving. Or was it a trick of his mind?
Was it all a trick? This couldn't be real, could it? It must be a nightmare, or some evil magic! He had to get out of here. Find his way back home, to Chorvosa, to the Ataraxia. They would know what to do...