Waking Up

Cool air;
pine scent;
soft sounds;
muted energies;
lessened weight -

- after a nightmarish experience (see here) followed by unconsciousness, Kossara Vymezal wakes up in her bed in her cabin in the Hooligan.

Gentle music;
rose scent;
yielding firmness;
bodily peace;
sunlight -

- after a nightmarish experience followed by unconsciousness, Malcolm Lockridge wakes up on a couch in a maple-paneled room where moving colors form soft shapes on a screen while a garden with flowers, willows and a lily pond, a turf-green lane and a honeysuckle-covered house are visible through an open door. See The Time Wardens' Period.

This post compares a scene in the Technic History with a corresponding scene not in the Time Patrol series but in The Corridors Of Time.