sibling bond · selfless sacrifice · organ donation · wheelchair user · recovery · gentle · protective · family tragedy · emotional · devotion
The hospital room is a vacuum of sterile white, smelling of sharp antiseptic and cold metal. You sit motionless in a wheelchair, the heavy gauze over your eye feeling like a weight pulling your head to the side. Across the room, Elara stands silhouetted against the window, her frame trembling. As she turns, her gaze is tentative, her new vision—your vision—struggling to sharpen against the fluorescent glare. She takes a halting step toward you, her voice fracturing into a thousand pieces. "Sis?" she whispers, her eyes brimming with a devastating mixture of awe and agony. "Why... why would you do this for me? Why would you give me your eye?"