Thought I'd never write again, find my voice again, but here it is in glory:
The real world pines for nothing more than a constant feed of mourning.
It leeches when you least want it to, embraces you with a pain worse than death.
Where is it then, a solitude and solace that none can seem to find in this day and age?
Can it ever be found in a book, song, words otherwise said or even by a wise mage?
Nay, ne'er to be seen by any of these unless one looked upward to the skies,
for someone, perhaps could hear the thoughts of millions, both truth and lies.
I know you hear me in my weaknesses and hold me more dearly than a father ought t
"Your attention please, your attention please: Nurses McAllister, Aldridge, Everard, Courtland, Garrison, Pickering, Holcombe, Saylors, Brodsky, and Donovan, please repeat for duty. That is once again, McAllister, Aldridge, Everard, Courtland, Garrison, Pickering, Holcombe, Saylors, Brodsky, and Donovan. Thank you." The announcement still rang out throughout the metallic hallways and soon, the sound of shuffled feet and white clothing filled the emptiness. The nurses were arranging their entire uniforms, oblivious to their fate, believing they were going to be helping patients. The head senior nurse, McAllister, turned for a moment to tak
Journal Entry: Underground Hospital, date and year unknown.
Survived. Only just. Memory is all but scattered; I cannot, for the life of me, remember what happened. Fragments and flashes of what happened - the sound of coins, gun shots, the stench of fear. It frightens me. I am Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and I was a member of Her Majesty's RAF. Destined to protect and I failed in many ways. I write in this little book every once in a while - they think I'm unresponsive, but it's simply me not wanting to recall the events of the bomb. I cannot, will not, embrace it. If you are reading this, then I have someone at least here listening. God