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Summary
To say that Big wakes up would be a strong overstatement of what happens. He’s mostly dead, and then he’s slightly less dead and can open his eyes sometimes, and then he’s only half-dead.
The few weeks he’s half-dead would probably be the worst, if Big had any recollection of them after he gets out of the hospital. He knows that he asks over and over where Ken is, and every time the staff tell him, and every time a little piece of him dies.
And then he goes back to sleep, and like a goldfish he forgets and they do it all again. It happens so many times it sticks with him even though practically nothing else from half-dead does.
And then suddenly, he’s not half-dead. He’s mostly alive. His brain gets its shit together and he can operate his arms and legs, and speak, if a little slurringly. He regains episodic memory and is profoundly embarrassed that he’s been told upwards of thirty times that Ken is dead. In all that, he never asked after Khun Kinn.
Or:
Big lives. This changes less than one might think.
Series
- Part 1 of The Moon Shimmers