"I do come from a military background, Angel. I was the chaplain for a mobile army surgical hospital three or four miles from the front, and the war was in an age after the invention of the nuclear warhead. We were often short of hands--you would always be, processing hundreds of wounded men at a time, who had all been shot full of enough shrapnel to build another tank. I helped process the dying and the dead, and ministered to those of us who kept living. I saw many things. The surgeons saw even more. You would be crazy to not go mad."
He looks up at the ceiling, again.
"That is to say... this is hardly the hardest thing I've ever done, or the worst nightmare I've ever mistakenly overheard. I'm sorry to have done so. But it is our nature to burden one another, and offer support in turn. Or else we would have no reason to love each other."
cw descriptions of war wounds
"I do come from a military background, Angel. I was the chaplain for a mobile army surgical hospital three or four miles from the front, and the war was in an age after the invention of the nuclear warhead. We were often short of hands--you would always be, processing hundreds of wounded men at a time, who had all been shot full of enough shrapnel to build another tank. I helped process the dying and the dead, and ministered to those of us who kept living. I saw many things. The surgeons saw even more. You would be crazy to not go mad."
He looks up at the ceiling, again.
"That is to say... this is hardly the hardest thing I've ever done, or the worst nightmare I've ever mistakenly overheard. I'm sorry to have done so. But it is our nature to burden one another, and offer support in turn. Or else we would have no reason to love each other."