Re: Hell's Kitchen, Marvel, Clem & Matt
[He made a soft musing sound when she said she had little experience with the blind. To be quite honest, he didn't know anyone who had experience with the blind. In his world, the whole lot of them (himself, included) were beggars, and it was a rare few that were born that way. They all died. It was the battered and broken that were generally blind, soldiers or the elderly, and now and then a criminal that the whole society felt deserved it. Nobody was especially gentle with them. It was expected that the lot you were born into was the one you were meant to have. Nobody talked of improving themselves beyond a few small, careful rungs up the social ladder. Say a more secure house, or a cousin who worked in a shop rather than on the street or in the ground. In Matt's figurative eyes, therefore, everyone he had met so far in this world with absolutely filthy rich. The sheets he was in made him assume she was some sort of aristocracy equivalent.
Fortunately Matt was used to illustrious company, and was not intimidated.] A replacement, ye say, no, 'twould not be. [It was a quiet comment, because he was more focused on new pains associated with moving, and he was dizzy and out of breath by the time he had resumed an awkward, cross-ways lie on the bed where he had been before, knees still aside to make way for her (and also because he hadn't gotten to lifting them). Metal, she said, and he tried to be patient. Plaintively:] Tis painful, good breath. These be loose here. [Indicating his side with his palm and obviously completely at a loss as to what she was doing with the metal thing.] I knew a man once that they pierced his innards, and once he died they found he was as full of misplaced blood as a pudding. [He was quite serious in this comment, and not joking, as internal bleeding was fairly serious. He could tell she wasn't lying, but still didn't quite believe the situation wasn't "grave" as he put it.] "Real good," thou sayst.
[His tongue was dry, and he coughed. The spasm of such a normal thing caused such an agony he saw stars. Literally.]