Gears in the Dark

Darkness. Cold silence. Then... a spark inside the chest. My jaw dropped open with a raspy click. Not stuck anymore. I rolled my eye forward, scanning the pitch-black perimeter. To my lower left, a sliver of dull yellow surface caught a faint glint. I nudged toward it, tapping it with the cold edge of my frame. A solid thud echoed back into the void. Alive. Standing guard in the dark.