Operation Room:
The smell of worn and leaking batteries in your nose, the thick coppery taste of pennies weighing down your tongue, the haze of that clear plastic wrap covering your face. The sound of that heart monitor going a 'beep beep beep', and the liquid fire in your blood, that leaves trails of ice down your flesh. That's right, you're in the Operating Room, baby, and don't you dare close your eyes, don't even think about giving into the pain, baby, don't think. Just breathe.
"Doctor, Doctor, I think the patient's awake. Doctor? Should we up the anesthetics?" "No, Nurse Goode, the patient's fully sedated. The tape came off the eyelids. Can someone fix that?" "Yes Doctor..."
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