𝕲𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖔𝖓'𝖘 𝕸𝖎𝖉𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝕷𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙

𝐵𝒶𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓊𝓇𝑔𝑒𝑜𝓃'𝓈 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒾𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 𝒟𝓇. 𝒥𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒲𝑜𝓂𝒶𝒸𝓀 • ━━━━━━━━━━━⊱༒︎• 🕱 •༒︎⊰━━━━━━━━━━━ • [Exerpt from The Surgeon's Apprentice] • ━━━⊱༒︎ • 𝕱𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕻𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑 𝕯𝖎𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝕲𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖔𝖓 𝕬𝖑𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖋 𝕾𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝕽𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖔𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝕾𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕬𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖑 12, 1755 The boy's screams still ring in my ears. God help me, I had to pin him down myself while Harrison dug for the musket ball, the lead still hot and slick with blood. His father had spent their last shilling on laudanum, for all the good it did. I watched the man weep in the corner. I felt as helpless as this man, my hands today serving only to restrain rather than heal. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • Beneath the castle’s watching eyes we held a boy against the blade. I pray for him tonight, "Dear Lord, don't let him fade." Every thunder crack he hears is like another musket fired. He screams again in fear and only struggles harder. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • Lead and laudanum, blood and rain... mercy's cruel design... Transform these screams to some thing pure, like water into wine. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • The monastery's northern walls hide secrets in their stone Each brick inside the wall could count a life I owe I swear at times they come, I hear the screams from hell I beg for fortitude, let me make the next ones well Paracelsus speaks to me and steals my thoughts, I am bound by dreams of transformation My motivation lies with each man lost I swear on God I'll cure this devastation • ━━━⊱༒︎ • Lead and laudanum, blood and rain... mercy's cruel design... Transform these screams to some thing pure, like water into wine. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • Now one more sleepless night. Flashbacks of what I've done. Another sleepless night that I will spend alone. All I hear in the rain is the torture I own. All the dead screaming in pain Lead and laudanum now gone. ᵍᵒⁿᵉ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ My father’s ghost walks these halls. Father, do you know what cursed arts I summon here? The sins that I must own? I gave the last of it away, the vial on the desk. The boys' agony is mine; all those I've laid to rest. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • Lead and laudanum, blood and rain... mercy's cruel design... Transform these screams to some thing pure, like water into wine. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • My hands shake above this page. I think perhaps i've found... This miracle I've made could rewrite pain somehow. Though The Royal College cannot see what these midnights made me own. I hold this deep inside of me. These sins are mine and mine alone. • ━━━⊱༒︎ • Lead and laudanum, blood and rain... man's cruel design... Transform these screams to some thing pure, like water into wine. Lead and laudanum, blood and rain... my most cruel design... Please, transform these screams to some thing pure... • ━━━━━━━━━━━⊱༒︎• 🕱 •༒︎⊰━━━━━━━━━━━ •