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Light-fisted stinging and little bladed voices. A big dark blur becoming a big light blur becoming a red blur becoming a dark blur. Inside-the-head stabbing and then nothing.
Then, a rhythmic beep. Pain, clean sheets, and mother.
"Oh, thank goodness you're awake, Jeffrey! I was so worried!"
Kisses, lipstick...wait, it doesn't feel like lipstick...
Her lips came up with white grease paint.
A gesture and she realised, wiping it off, removing the white and smearing Berry Lovely around her mouth.
A tickle. She reached for the pillows and came up with a mass of orange.
"Those awful children, Jeffrey. Why don't you find another line of work? Get a real job, this is madness!"
Casting about, hitting upon the IV box, left open.
Beep, beep, beep. Morphine, smile, conversation over.
Then, a rhythmic beep. Pain, clean sheets, and mother.
"Oh, thank goodness you're awake, Jeffrey! I was so worried!"
Kisses, lipstick...wait, it doesn't feel like lipstick...
Her lips came up with white grease paint.
A gesture and she realised, wiping it off, removing the white and smearing Berry Lovely around her mouth.
A tickle. She reached for the pillows and came up with a mass of orange.
"Those awful children, Jeffrey. Why don't you find another line of work? Get a real job, this is madness!"
Casting about, hitting upon the IV box, left open.
Beep, beep, beep. Morphine, smile, conversation over.