Thursday - You'd Think It Would Hurt
Tonight, 100 words on: overstimulation.
As a reminder, this can count as one of your 100 Drabbles.
A.N.: And it is -- I'm crossposting this from a comment in my entry for the table.
Time: Pre-"Secundus," Alice's childhood
Notes: This was inspired by one of Dr. Wilson's journal entries in the casebook that came with the original Alice game, and a memory from "Alice: Madness Returns." The entry in question is the one from "10 December 1864," which comments that burns that massive must cause great discomfort, yet you'd never know it from the way she lies there so still. The memory is one from the Deluded Depths, which makes a mention of her skin being "as brittle as carp scales." It got me thinking about how sensitive burned skin is, and we got this.
Nurse Vivian’s least favorite part of her job was changing the bandages on young burn victims. No matter how gentle she was, the children always cried from the pain. It made her feel absolutely helpless. How could you effectively treat someone when even the slightest touch could cause them agony?
When Alice had been brought in, Vivian had been horrified to see the extent of her burns. She’d braced herself for the first bandage change, certain she would have to deal with screams like she’d never heard before.
Alice, however, remained completely silent through it all.
Somehow, that was worse.
As a reminder, this can count as one of your 100 Drabbles.
A.N.: And it is -- I'm crossposting this from a comment in my entry for the table.
Time: Pre-"Secundus," Alice's childhood
Notes: This was inspired by one of Dr. Wilson's journal entries in the casebook that came with the original Alice game, and a memory from "Alice: Madness Returns." The entry in question is the one from "10 December 1864," which comments that burns that massive must cause great discomfort, yet you'd never know it from the way she lies there so still. The memory is one from the Deluded Depths, which makes a mention of her skin being "as brittle as carp scales." It got me thinking about how sensitive burned skin is, and we got this.
Nurse Vivian’s least favorite part of her job was changing the bandages on young burn victims. No matter how gentle she was, the children always cried from the pain. It made her feel absolutely helpless. How could you effectively treat someone when even the slightest touch could cause them agony?
When Alice had been brought in, Vivian had been horrified to see the extent of her burns. She’d braced herself for the first bandage change, certain she would have to deal with screams like she’d never heard before.
Alice, however, remained completely silent through it all.
Somehow, that was worse.