Sin

Emberline had started her training as a nurse soon after, her duty entirely consuming her time and attention. Her first week was spent in the general ward with patients who had fallen ill with a cough or had started to show signs of recovery. She hadn't realized how much work was to be done caring for one or two patients who showed little to no remorse while wetting the beds.

A few days had passed since she first arrived. Her friend Lenny, well-acquainted with everyone, had made sure Ember felt slightly more at ease amongst the others. Although she still maintained her distance from most, she had managed to befriend Margaret, a short, tubby woman who spoke as though she was always half asleep. She would talk without halt, filling the silence for Ember.

Ember had never been a shy and quiet person, but she hadn't managed to engage herself in the activities among the other girls. She missed home, and more than anything she had wanted to be sitting in the drawing room, holding up her mirror and making her hair while Jenny did her quiet hobbies and Anna Lynn and Morrie shouted in the background, which was almost a daily occurrence.

Not enough chores could help her forget her desire to leave at the very next instance. But she was more than willing to undertake more tasks, a quality that many others found greatly useful.

Lenny had tasked her to draw blood from her patient early morning, while Margaret asked her favor in changing the sheets of discharged patients, in the midst of which she disappeared, leaving her changing them all by herself.