Doctor's Orders

"Its going to hurt."



"That's ok."



And it was. Pain was a given so long as Lilith was living. It had been ever present during her retrospectively short life in comparison of that of others. So in truth she should be grateful. Grateful that whatever pain she had experienced, would never surpass the desperate hopelessness that drowned and suffocated those who had never broken the shackles that bound them to their pain. Lilith should be grateful.



And so, among the screams of pain that resonated throughout the dim hospital, she was silent.