What had happened to me?
I wondered indignantly.
Was I a fettered prisoner?
had I lost the use of my light aerial limbs that had borne me so swiftly through the realms of space?
What crushing weight overpowered me?
why such want of air and loss of delightful ease?
I sighed restlessly and impatiently at the narrow darkness in which I found myself--a sorrowful, deep, shuddering sigh ....

and WOKE! That is to say, I languidly opened mortal eyes to find myself once more pent up in mortal frame, though I retained a perfect remembrance and consciousness of everything I had experienced during my spirit-wanderings.

Heliobas stood in front of me with outstretched hands, and his eyes were fixed on mine with a mingled expression of anxiety and authority, which changed into a look of relief and gladness as I smiled at him and uttered his name aloud..