Sometimes I do wonder if most comas "are stupid" to quote the person that remarked upon his coma are as fun as this. Though I imagine them being all fantastical, while outside of the dreaming-reality, all other realities are converging around the slow death of Vartan as seen with his family. It really does, despite being abrupt in every other case, seem like a contrast of (two important) realities that manage to fit in the fine Universe that seems to neglect both realities. The "actual" reality is grieving for him while the "mystical" reality beckons him to let loose so he can do the impossible. And the coma is the contingent medium that allows the two to play-off each other and showcase how individual they are despite being collapsed under the same Universe that houses them both.

That ending of the ending really is a point of love and speculation - this is what good surrealistic (even just absurdist) works can pull off which I commend yah for as did @dirge and @brisby / @bananafish. I love how here, not in the actual exploration, that the "mystical" reality can actually stand on its two feet and when the "actual" reality tries to rob the reader's attention and showcase what's happening in its reality. Which now, in the confusion of both realities, seems like both are conflicting - and given more words or even a second round to make an ending's ending - which might resolve in Vartan breaking the "actual" reality but forever changing how the "mystical" reality operates by expanding its areas of operations or even become some fantasy "Save the World" plot with "Eastern" (really Sino-Hindu in its most obscene form) and Caucasus characteristics.

Upvot'd and resteem'd.