There were days when the hospital was the safest place the city, where every member of staff was an angel in the eyes of the public... this was not one of those days.
This was a day to avoid the hospital, to pretend you had no symptoms of sickness and had never even sneezed in your life. This was a day to be the pinnacle of health and vigour, a day to convince the hospital that you really didn't need to go there - much less go to ward three.
This was a day to feed the ward and keep the displeased souls of the wretches who'd died there at peace for a while longer. Sometimes they wanted feeding once every five years, other times it was daily for a few months and it was no wonder that the town's population was so young and so few.
This was a day to avoid the hospital, to pretend you had no symptoms of sickness and had never even sneezed in your life. This was a day to be the pinnacle of health and vigour, a day to convince the hospital that you really didn't need to go there - much less go to ward three.
This was a day to feed the ward and keep the displeased souls of the wretches who'd died there at peace for a while longer. Sometimes they wanted feeding once every five years, other times it was daily for a few months and it was no wonder that the town's population was so young and so few.
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