He hates that word. He's heard it before in clinical tones. He hates that word.
He hates it more now than the last time he heard it.
Mostly because it's John saying it.
He accepts the pills but doesn't yet take them. Part of him wonders if this is still a dream. If it's part of a hallucination. That there is a doctor checking off all the little bullet points and he's just... transferring it in his mind. Making it John. No. No. If his mind were doing that, it would change the tone. Either this is entirely false or it's entirely true. He can trust his senses that much.
Except he couldn't in Baskerville. Parts of that were wholly real. The hound itself, for instance, but not its true nature.
Damn it. Why couldn't he think? At least properly.]
I'm not in pain.
[Always easier to say that than try to rate it.
How was he supposed to rate it? What sort of scale? After all, what he'd felt was hardly objective. And if the scale was entirely subjective, that defeated the whole purpose of it. An inane system.
Couldn't the world of advanced medicine come up with something better?]
no subject
He hates that word. He's heard it before in clinical tones. He hates that word.
He hates it more now than the last time he heard it.
Mostly because it's John saying it.
He accepts the pills but doesn't yet take them. Part of him wonders if this is still a dream. If it's part of a hallucination. That there is a doctor checking off all the little bullet points and he's just... transferring it in his mind. Making it John. No. No. If his mind were doing that, it would change the tone. Either this is entirely false or it's entirely true. He can trust his senses that much.
Except he couldn't in Baskerville. Parts of that were wholly real. The hound itself, for instance, but not its true nature.
Damn it. Why couldn't he think? At least properly.]
I'm not in pain.
[Always easier to say that than try to rate it.
How was he supposed to rate it? What sort of scale? After all, what he'd felt was hardly objective. And if the scale was entirely subjective, that defeated the whole purpose of it. An inane system.
Couldn't the world of advanced medicine come up with something better?]