//------------------------------// // Whites coats and Black rooms // Story: Silence of the night // by ikko-001 //------------------------------// "The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis" "It was still dark when I get up, in the room was a deathly silence. I was afraid, no really. I looked around, for what I could see I realize that I was in a medical center, there were some empty beds, a cabinet with medical supplies, and a window to my left where I could see the moon in all its splendor. I tried to get out of bed, but I couldn't because the big pain I felt for any move I made. Searching for the origin of my pain I found out that all my back was covered in bandages. After a second attempt I realized that It was useless to continue and I gave up. So, I stay lying in bed until dawn when a nurse came to my room, she has a big surprise when she found me awake, I only reply her with a smile. Later a doctor came, he didn't say a word, he only looked at me and told the nurse to take me here. The few things that I can told you is that I was looking everywhere as the nurse take me out the room, the letter on my bed, "C", the number of my room, "201", the people outside, with all their hurry to go from one place to another, the view of the ocean from the window in front of this room, the calm of the picture, the beauty of a flock of seagulls flying in the horizon. That's all, doctor." I said sitting on a wheelchair. "I see. Well I am glad you're awake, it's been a few weeks since you came and we did not know if in the end you would wake up." said the doctor from his desk. "Doctor, I don't know what to say , there is much that I would like to ask …" I said excitedly. "I know, but everything in its time." he added. "Ok doctor." I said with disappointment. "Very well , before I start I would like to ask about something, Who are you?" he ask me with a serious voice. In my inside I was trying to remember all about my past, specially that, Who was I? "Well?" he ask. But I was keeping silent as I was looking at him, thinking. Who is him to ask me that?, hell I've told him that I don't remember anything. "I don't not know. I can't remember anything before today." I answered "I see" he told me as he pulled some files from his desk. His voice was cold and his face emotionless, dressing with a white coat that was making contrast with his dark color and his red eyes. All making him have more resemblance with a demon than with a doctor, even he have a horn. "I can only remember what I've told you." I said. "Ok, so 201- C according to your medical history you were brought to the hospital by someone called Noteworthy, who found you in the north woods. According to the records you arrived unconscious with several blows around your body and your wings were almost burned with multiple fractures. It seems as if you had fought a dragon …" he said, as he was looking to some papers at his desk. "Wait doctor, you just said that I had wings?" I quickly ask. "Yes, that's correct. We had to amputate your wings." he answered without looking at me. "I see …." I said with a shaky voice. Even a bomb exploding in my head wouldn't have made such an impact as what I have just heard. I WAS MAD, REALLY MAD. "I cannot keep up with this shit, I'm leaving this." I said as I tried to get up from the wheelchair. "I do not think it's a good idea, sir , especially after the operation for which you have passed." he added. "Shut up!" I shouted, his cold voice and expressionless face made ​​me want to hit him in the jaw. After feeling as if an elephant had passed on my back, I got up from my seat and walk straight to the door . My head was a whirlwind of emotions and ideas trying to be assimilated in the process but that only generated more questions. "Wait!" he shouted after me. "What do you want?" I said as I moved my hoof to the doorknob. "Answers , sir. The injuries you suffered yesterday are not normal and there have not been reports of dragons since the establishment of this town, so you don't think you should at least clarify how it is that someone in the middle of the forest ends with bruises and burns of third degree, especially when the person who brought you stated and I quote : "I found him inside of a crater next to a huge deformed metal structure. I can't tell what would have happened here to made that kind of destruction, many trees were still on fire and others totally destroyed". As you can see you aren't a "normal" patient here and as director of this medical facility and your doctor I have the right to know at least your name. So?" he said, but I was with only one thing in my head, get out of there and find some answers outside. "I told you, I don't remember anything." I shouted him without looking. "Very well, as you don't know I can't let you go. I hope you enjoy the darkness, because you will be sleeping for a while." he said before I can make any move. After that I only remember a pin at my neck, then all went blurry and dizzy and by the time the white walls turned into black. I was again in my mind, looking at all the shadows that were covering my past. Who I was? Where I was? and What had happened to my that now I was with one big hole where my wings were? My mind was filling with all these questions… Well, at least now my mind was full of something.