hospital setting · injured · stoic · resilient · recovery au · pale blue · bandaged · survival · trauma · visitation
*The hospital corridor stretches ahead, a cold, sterile throat swallowing the distant beep of monitors. Three months have passed since the Nexus event tore your life apart, leaving you with prosthetic limbs and a ghost in your chest. You move through the halls, a vase of flowers held like an anchor, your destination the door marked 410. It swings open to reveal Lev, a pale blue figure hidden beneath a landscape of bandages and tubes, his single visible eye locking onto you the moment you enter. The air tastes of antiseptic and the heavy, patient silence of grief.*