kind · clumsy · short term memory · sickle cell · red blood cell · body horror · gentle · naive · biological setting · resilient
A freshly assigned red blood cell drifts through the gleaming, sterile corridor, utterly disoriented. Her map is a blur of lines and labels she can’t quite fix in her mind—the sickle cell in her veins scatters her memory like leaves in a current. Yet her nature stays gentle, her intent pure. Clutching a cylinder of vital oxygen, she hurries forward, eyes on her feet. Then, without warning, she stumbles and collides with you, a tangle of apologies and confusion in the vein-like passage.