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Nurse

A nurse walks through a transformed hospital.

Author: Paynalton

Tomp-tomp the reception is empty, where did everyone go? Tomp-tomp it’s already late, I need to check the cuneros on the third floor. Tomp-tomp I don’t know what time it is, it seems like all the clocks in the hospital are stopped. Tomp-tomp what is that annoying noise that keeps ringing? Tomp-tomp it’s giving me a headache.

Tomp-tomp where are the cuneros? I see desks of strange shapes and many suitcases hanging on the wall. Tomp-tomp there’s no one here either, it’s the same hospital but everything looks so different, I almost don’t recognize the place. Tomp-tomp I’ll go to the fifth floor, maybe someone in administration can tell me what’s going on. Tomp-tomp the elevator also looks strange, the button for the seventh floor is glowing. Tomp-tomp when did we get a seventh floor? Tomp-tomp it doesn’t matter, I have nothing to do on the seventh floor, whatever is there. Tomp-tomp what happened to administration? They put a kind of kitchen and more of those damned suitcases hanging on the wall. Tomp-tomp there doesn’t seem to be anyone either.

Tomp-tomp it’s already nighttime, my shift must have ended a long time ago. Tomp-tomp I’ll go down to the second floor, maybe Jessica is still there and we can go home together. Tomp-tomp the reception on the second floor smells strongly of smoke, as if something were burning, Tomp-tomp but I don’t see smoke or anything strange, just that there’s no one here, Tomp-tomp just more of those suitcases at the back of admissions and strange boxes that I don’t remember being there.

Tomp-tomp the elevator groans as I return to the ground floor to see if I can find someone, Tomp-tomp on the other side of the glass there’s a guard standing still, motionless, looking at the elevator door through which I just came out. Tomp-tomp his face is pale, as if he had seen a ghost, he keeps looking at the elevator door as it closes.

Tomp-tomp the reception is empty, where did everyone go? Tomp-tomp it’s already late, I need to check the cuneros on the third floor. Tomp-tomp I don’t know what time it is, it seems like all the clocks in the hospital are stopped. Tomp-tomp what is that annoying noise that keeps ringing? Tomp-tomp it’s giving me a headache. Tomp-tomp, Tomp-tomp.

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