the doctor is in

[whathedoves]

Who: Yuuya and volunteers.
What: I think there might be a nightmare plot going on right now? There are some logs...
When: Nightmare Plot
Where: The doctor's office at St. PigeoNation's
Rating: PG-13...? Gore, blood, dead bodies

Spoilers for a pigeon dating sim.

There's no mistaking the sterile, tidy white room Yuuya has stumbled into, though the power of dreaming makes it feel both infinite and infinitely small, a claustrophobic space that still stretches on nearly forever.

The curtains are drawn around the cots, obscuring whatever carnage is there. But Yuuya knows - and any glance around the curtain will confirm - that every cot is occupied. Someone is dead in each of these beds.

Outfitted with tools of the medical trade and some less legal equipment (Dr. Iwamine's cleaver has been sterilized and sterilized, but it still looks bloody), Yuuya is equipped for the grisly task of turning lifeless stock into meat. At the other end of the office, the door is locked. The desk is stacked with files, full of the unspoken threat to his only brother's life and future.

It's the same as before, when he'd had to lift the human girl from the floor and turn her into pieces. The poor thing, the poor thing ... but she had just been one human, right?

The place on his wing where the doctor cut him is open and inflamed. Maybe the toxin will kill him before he can get through all the bodies.

It's worth hoping.

Are you another one of the doctor's volunteers? Did he blackmail you, too?

No matter your level of participation, Yuuya isn't likely to be happy to see you.

Comments

[cyan_maid]

[And down she goes, too!

...Well, not really. How Yuuya's heavy enough to pull her arm down Jane will never understand, but her fingers brush his feathers almost reassuringly and definitely by accident.

He sounds so upset, though...she wishes she could move to hug him.]

[whathedoves]

[The dove shudders visibly when Jane's lifeless hand follows him down. Touching it just off the bat is too painful, so he promises to set it back as soon as he returns with the sheet.

He leaves her behind long enough to find a clean one and returns to drape it over her face and upper torso, not caring to look as long as he can.

Then he takes up the tools, placing knives and saws in the shallow medical tray beside the bed.]

I am sorry.

[cyan_maid]

[Sorry for what, she wants to ask, her view of the world now obscured by the sheet. She can see some vague shadows, but that's about it, and that worries her. Why did he cover her face...?]

[whathedoves]

[Sorry for the skin and tendons he's about to open up at her ankle joins, for one. He can't even bear to mark it out, first. He can either handle this with the utmost respect, caution and slow - or he can rush through it to get it over with as quickly as possible.

And Yuuya's a coward, so he cuts fast.]

[cyan_maid]

[Oh, God.

Someone's cutting into her ankles.

Jane has never felt any pain worse than this, and she can feel a scream building up in her throat, but she just can't - get it - out!!!!!!

Yuuya, where are you?? Help!!!!]

[whathedoves]

[With no way to hear her distress and seeing no unusual amount of blood from the cutting, there is nothing to stop his cuts, not even when he needs to take up the saw.

There's a solidness in human bones not present in birds. The heaviness stalls him a little, though Yuuya has focused so entirely on work alone that he's shut almost everything else out.

He pauses to wipe his face. Birds don't really perspire, but he writes it off as sweat anyway.]

[cyan_maid]

[Jane has never felt anything more agonizing in her life, and every bit of her screams to fight back, but she can't, and she has no idea why. A brief thought strikes her - could she be dead? - but that would be ridiculous. How could she feel and see and hear if she were dead?

The cloth near her eyes begins to dampen. Is she crying?]