False Colors
“Men lay there in heaps, vomiting, lying in it, their skin yellow, blood trickling from nostrils and ears.
An orderly, with his cravat wound about his face like a mask, paced through the arched darkness swinging a burning thurifer of brimstone. Yellow smoke billowed about Alfie, biting at his eyes and scouring the inside of his throat. Taking his own cravat off, he wrapped it over his nose and mouth. It mellowed some of the burn.
Gillingham coughed protractedly, sweat standing out on his brow an...d his reddened eyes watering. Blinking back the tears, he bore it with more fortitude than Alfie would have expected; silent, staggering only when he tripped over the patients. Alfie took his elbow and clung on, pretending to offer comfort, but taking it in equal measure as they waded forwards through hell on earth.
The sharp snap and thud of a rope’s end on flesh punctuated the moans of the sick. As they picked their way on through the stinging clouds, stepping over the dying, a gang of slaves parted for them.MoreLess
An orderly, with his cravat wound about his face like a mask, paced through the arched darkness swinging a burning thurifer of brimstone. Yellow smoke billowed about Alfie, biting at his eyes and scouring the inside of his throat. Taking his own cravat off, he wrapped it over his nose and mouth. It mellowed some of the burn.
Gillingham coughed protractedly, sweat standing out on his brow an...d his reddened eyes watering. Blinking back the tears, he bore it with more fortitude than Alfie would have expected; silent, staggering only when he tripped over the patients. Alfie took his elbow and clung on, pretending to offer comfort, but taking it in equal measure as they waded forwards through hell on earth.
The sharp snap and thud of a rope’s end on flesh punctuated the moans of the sick. As they picked their way on through the stinging clouds, stepping over the dying, a gang of slaves parted for them.MoreLess
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