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I watched the clock, counting the times the minute hand rolled past twelve for the second tiers twitch

I closed er, and felt it lift off the bed, then fall immediately back down

That er, one of ht side, and nearly my entire face

The ones ontoelse to move

It’d been four hours since they’d stopped the tranquilizing medication An hour since the nurse had come in to check on me Thirty minutes since the doctor had come in

However, I pretended I was asleep, much like the woh

Once they were gone, I went back to what I was doing and realized rather quickly how frustrating it was for a body to cole body part at a time

I lifted the finger again, and this ti soft and silky underneath of it when I brought it back down

The woman’s hair

Henley’s

Another tiny piece of htened

I was a dark, dangerous, broken man

Being in this hospital was slowly killing me

But knowing that this woh I didn’t know her at all, wasthis become actually bearable

I could do this

And when, thirty minutes later, I closed my entire fist around her hair and held onto it, I felt another piece of my soul settle

Four hours later

I knew the moment she woke

Her body, which had been soft and yielding, tensed

She was no longer leaning just her head on the bed Now she was leaned forward, her head onher entire upper body lean heavily against mine