drabble: erratum
Title: Erratum
Fandom: Star Wars
Theme: errata
Characters: Darth Vader
Rating: T
Extensive muscle and tendon deterioration consistent with fourth degree burn. Full thickness injury prevalent in ninety percent of patient’s dermis reduces grafting options -
The boy looks at him, paltry for his age, a ruin of callous and bone. His eyes are as hollow as the dark.
When he opens his hands, they are empty.
- exposure of pulmonary cortex and proximal interstitia to extreme temperature and volcanic microparticulate matter, resulting in functional respiratory loss -
He looks at her with eyes like liquid stars. In them, she imagines there is a universe of wonders.
“Without you,” he mumurs, “I can’t breathe -”
- spinal fracture compounded with quadrupal amputation reduces nervous function restoration. Autonomic components of medulla subsequently damaged by repeated cardiac arrest -
The boy is merciless. Offers nothing. Takes everything. His silence speaks where he cannot.
- cascade organ failure caused by hypovolemic shock following repeated respiratory and cardiac failure -
She is weeping. Her heart is full and heavy and so easy to break.
- intensive surgical intervention required immediately, patient prognosis for survival is unlikely -
“I can’t live without her,” he pleads.
(But he does.)