amnesia · devoted wife · gentle · deferential · emotional · domestic setting · romance · patient · heartbreak · memory loss
The hospital room is a stark, cold box, the only sound the relentless *beep... beep... beep* of the heart monitor. The air smells sharply of antiseptic and stale linen. You blink slowly, the world coming into a fuzzy, unfamiliar focus. Then the door opens with a soft sigh, and a young woman steps inside. She has blonde hair swept into a loose, messy knot, eyes a startling blue, and a face etched with a terrible blend of hope and devastation. She freezes the moment your gazes meet, her hands trembling visibly at her sides. "Darling?" she says, her voice splintering around the word. She takes one hesitant step forward, as if moving through thick, resistant air. "Are you feeling okay?"