/lit/ - Literature

I tried writing a scene about a biologically engineered 'super smart' human getting out of his stasis tube for the first time. This is the first part of that scene - let me know what you think.

Cold, shivering; from his head downwards, the warm, liquid substance that had lulled him into a calm sleep for so long was disappearing, replaced by a stinging coolness. A sharp inhale - cold air made its way down his throat and he couldn’t help but hack at the sudden sensation. Breathing. He suddenly realized he was breathing, and that he needed the air to survive. He also realized that he could last approximately two minutes without oxygen before passing out, and that the atomic symbol for oxygen was ‘O’, its atomic number ‘8’, and its atomic weight ‘16’; but although these facts swiveled effortlessly from his subconsciousness into the forefront of his mind one after the other, he couldn’t explain how he knew these things.
“Hello?”
Pale eyelids snapped back to reveal a set of eyes that were an unnatural shade of bright green. First they looked down at the pair of bare hands planted against the metal ground, keeping their owner from falling over, and then they swiveled up to the lab coat clad human male in front of him.
“Do you understand me?” The man’s voice was soft and aged, which suited his wrinkly face and graying mustache.
“...Yes.” English. Although the sounds both he and the man made sounded like a foreign mixture of odd grunts, he still understood the meaning behind the noises.