I was sitting on a hospital bed. I've been waiting for twenty minutes since the nurse apparently wakes up late in the morning. "when will the nurse wake up? i've been waiting forever."
"Be patient; she has a lot of patients; she needs good sleep." He told me in an annoyed tone.
"the hospital is empty." Looking around, there were four extra beds where I was sitting. "there isn't a single person in this hospital."
"That's because people aren't injured like yo-"
"What's this? Why do I have a patient this early in the morning?" The lady nurse yawns from her tiredness.
"This idiot has been injured since yesterday." He said, pointing at me.
"Then let's do a check-up. Where are you injured?"
Holding up my left hand, I showed her my missing pinky. Then I also pointed to my shoulder, which was bitten off. "that's all the injuries i have."
"Jesus, and it doesn't hurt?"
"no, i mean, it did when it was first bitten off, but then it stopped, and i thought it was just the cold numbing the pain." I mean, it was a pretty reasonable conclusion.
"Let me take a look at that hand." I gave her my hand, and she grabbed it. Looking at my hand closer. "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your hand. Now let me see your shoulder." She looked closely at my shoulder, inspecting the bite. "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it either."
"Can you roll up your sleeves so I can look at it more?" Rolling up my sleeves, I showed her my shoulder. But when I looked at my shoulder, it was dry and crusty. There were cracks all over my shoulder. The cracks looked like fissures were forming on my skin.
She touched my shoulder, but I didn't feel anything. "I haven't seen anything like this, and I've been here for over 5 years. It looks like you were bitten by those things, right?"
"yeah, they got me pretty good."
"They got you good alright; let's hope it's not infectious because I'm not letting you sleep in my apartment with that on your shoulder."
"what, that's unfair; it wasn't even my fault."
"Well, you shouldn't have gotten yourself bitten."
"how was I supposed to stop them? they let me run and then just instantly took my pinky."
"Stop fucking with the newcomer; we need to find out what this is and how bad it is."
"I think the demon would know a thing or two."
"There's a demon here? Are you sure it's safe?" She asked skeptically.
"he's perfectly harmless; i haven't seen him hurt a single fly."
"That is something I am reluctant to believe."
"you're right, i'm lying. i'm pretty sure he would even eat a fly."
"That does sound pretty demonish," Jimmy said.
"i'm pretty sure he's more of the envy type than the gluttony type."
"How do you know?" Asked the nurse.
"i mean he has fins and scales for a reason."
"Welp, that should be it for the inspection. Go ask your little demon friend about this still." She got up from looking at my shoulder and walked out of the room.