Alexei folded up the blanket from his cot. He'd recently put together a medical bay and had been living there for a few days. He turned and started to walk back.
Pain. Sudden pain of such intensity, the likes of which he had never felt before.
The world began spinning, hundreds of faces came flooding into his mind. Faces of those he'd murdered, tortured. The dam in his mind shattered and sixteen years of repressed emotion came rushing back like an unstoppable torrent. Remorse. Guilt. A lifetime of horrors and atrocities he had committed.
There was blood oozing from his head. He was lying crumpled on the floor of the infirmary, his head had clipped the desk when he fell. His grey eyes, once empty and cold, were now filled with terror and guilt. They darted back and forth, as if looking between many things. The world around him was gone. He saw none of it, the nightmares of his past stood before him now.
Alexei's body lay still, save for an occasional twitch. He was softly repeating the same thing over and over in another language. "I am a monster. What have I done?"
Pain. Sudden pain of such intensity, the likes of which he had never felt before.
The world began spinning, hundreds of faces came flooding into his mind. Faces of those he'd murdered, tortured. The dam in his mind shattered and sixteen years of repressed emotion came rushing back like an unstoppable torrent. Remorse. Guilt. A lifetime of horrors and atrocities he had committed.
There was blood oozing from his head. He was lying crumpled on the floor of the infirmary, his head had clipped the desk when he fell. His grey eyes, once empty and cold, were now filled with terror and guilt. They darted back and forth, as if looking between many things. The world around him was gone. He saw none of it, the nightmares of his past stood before him now.
Alexei's body lay still, save for an occasional twitch. He was softly repeating the same thing over and over in another language. "I am a monster. What have I done?"
