... it was getting harder to breathe. Smoky. There had been no fires when I left.
I hadn't thought they'd start razing the buildings when they were done with a sweep.
[He sees the fire rise up before his eyes. Feels the heat of the flames. He's in that moment, with the boy he was, seeing it as his ten year old self and seeing it at twenty eight.]
The hospital was an inferno. Completely engulfed.
I couldn't get in. She couldn't get out.
[He had told her to hide underneath the bed. She wouldn't have known until it was too late.]
... I... just... could... watch... and think how I had... promised her...
[Even if he had still been breathing, most of him had died right there.
And what was left was being birthed into what he now was. Part of him, anyway.
no subject
What else was there to do?
[No hope. At least he could be there with Lamie.]
... it was getting harder to breathe. Smoky. There had been no fires when I left.
I hadn't thought they'd start razing the buildings when they were done with a sweep.
[He sees the fire rise up before his eyes. Feels the heat of the flames. He's in that moment, with the boy he was, seeing it as his ten year old self and seeing it at twenty eight.]
The hospital was an inferno. Completely engulfed.
I couldn't get in. She couldn't get out.
[He had told her to hide underneath the bed. She wouldn't have known until it was too late.]
... I... just... could... watch... and think how I had... promised her...
[Even if he had still been breathing, most of him had died right there.
And what was left was being birthed into what he now was. Part of him, anyway.
The Surgeon of Death.]