During the two-month at the village of Anderson
Rebecca:
"Blood was flowing from Rebecca's head, she remained crouching on the floor of the toilet, far from caring, without speaking, with a blank stare."
"A minute later, Rebecca went into the bathroom to get a bucket of water near the rusty bathroom sink."
"She used this water only reserved for washing to wash her mouth and head so as not to show any flaws in front of anyone, then when she finished one minute later, she wiped her tears with both of his hands."
(It's finally over, damn memories that resurface out of nowhere.)
"When Rebecca felt ready to return after looking himself in the mirror, she returned to Edward in his bedroom, her gaze blank."
"Near the bed and in front of Edward who was only looking at her, she forced herself to speak."
Sorry if I worried you, I'm better now.
Edward:
"Having looked at Rebecca's face, Edward became seriously worried."
Are you sure it's okay?
You no longer react like before and you seem distant compared to earlier, has something happened?
Rebecca:
"Looking a little blank, Rebecca also forced herself to smile so as not to worry Edward."
I just evacuated my pain, that's all, I was already in bad shape, which explains why I rushed to the toilet.
Nothing more.
Edward:
"Edward still worries so much."
I see.
(Maybe a stomach ache.)
I'm not going to ask any more questions about it if that's it, no need to force you to speak on this subject.
But what is this?
Could you explain to me about your forehead?
Some skin seems to have torn on a small part of your forehead, I see bits of skin peeling off towards the middle of your forehead.
Rebecca:
"With an empty look, always empty, Rebecca touches her forehead only for a moment to feel the gravity of the situation."
By doing things quickly, I fell by mistake on the ground.
That's why my forehead has skin coming out towards the part on which I fell, that's just that, a fall.
Edward:
"Edward's worry only increases."
Um, Rebecca, are you okay?
You just fell with such a serious injury, yet you manage to stay calm in this situation.
No, more like you're jaded by what's happening to you when you should go see your adoptive father, or rather the adult downstairs.
I don't even know if it's your father or someone else, but anyway, go see him so he can take care of you.
Rebecca:
Don't worry, it's not the first time this has happened to me so I'll handle it.
You stay here while I go see my father downstairs so he can put a bandage on my forehead while it all heals.
Edward:
"Edward tells, confuse."
All--- righ--t?
"Afterwards, Rebecca went downstairs to see her father."
(She's definitely become weird since she came back, what could have happened to make her act like that?
No, there's definitely something wrong.
You're not going to make me believe that someone could get such a serious injury just from falling in the toilet.
Even falling from stairs, I wouldn't even be surprised to know that this kind of injury is almost impossible to get, because the injury seems so deep.
Only by persisting you could injure yourself like that, I don't see any other solutions.)
Ludo:
"Behind his counter, reading the weekly newspaper, made by the Kaska faction."
(They seem to be losing more and more members from what I see, it's getting worse and worse what's happening in their area.
However, I wonder why?
Their region is Kentucky, a region at north of Virginia filled with infected everywhere, but even if that is the case, more than half of the members jump?
It must be panic among the population alive there.
I hope for them that they will be helped by Sun Hope as they usually do, it's this faction that saved them once, and now they will have to do it a second time if they don't want that Kentucky turns into a desert.
At least in the newspaper's statements, they do not show their concern.
Damn, life can be hard sometimes for some people, it's heartbreaking. Many people who didn't ask for anything will have to suffer attacks with no one to help them.
If the regions further north than us could be quieter when it came to invasions of infected, then there wouldn't have been any problems.
But, in the end, the faction has condemned its population, whether of its own accord or not.)
Rebecca:
"Behind the counter, Ludo sees Rebecca coming, after having descended the stairs calmly then having walked towards her father."
"Keeping the same expression without leaving his blank look, Rebecca asks her father."
Hey Dad, could you do something for my forehead?
I hurt my head.
Ludo:
"Ludo immersed in his newspaper, raises his head to see Rebecca's face."
What!
"Ludo gets up to take a closer look at the injury, going through the path that goes around the counter that only he can currently take since he is inside the counter."
"As soon as he stood near Rebecca, he took Rebecca's head with both hands to see the wound."
It's not light at all.
"Ludo brings Rebecca's head closer to him to better see the wound."
Damn, what could you have done to injure yourself so deeply?
There's a crater on your forehead with the size of a golf ball!
Rebecca:
"With her gaze still empty, she answers him."
By falling, I did it to myself by falling.
Ludo:
"Ludo considered that he had seen enough, he let go of Rebecca's head."
My eye, yes.
You're terrible at lying, you have surely hit yourself in the head or something like that for some reason that escapes me.
Rebecca:
"Feeling the seriousness of the situation, Rebecca could do nothing except show her father a false smile to reassure him."
Who would be stupid enough to hit himself so seriously?
Maybe you didn't hear me fall in the bathroom, that's why you doubt what I'm saying.
(Every time, Dad don't hear me when I make noises above.
Fortunately, all the bedrooms in the inn are completely soundproof from the inside when we close the door.
To avoid customers complaining about being heard in their bedroom or when they go in their toilet, by all the guests of the inn.
Same thing for the only one toilet of the inn who isn't in a bedroom and who no one use except me and my father, the toilet I used at the first floor.)
Ludo:
No, I didn't hear you, that's true, but that's not a reason to not consider the possibility that you effectively hurt yourself, knowing what you do.
If you saw your injury yourself, you wouldn't believe how serious it is.
Anyway, let's leave it until later, I'll bring back a roll of bandage and a dressing so that your wound heals, in the meantime stay here.
"Ludo goes to get the first aid kit from his bedroom on the third floor of the inn, in order to take a roll of bandages and a dressing."
"After a short wait of a few minutes, he came back down the stairs."
Come on, I'm going to apply this to you… "Ludo points to the sofa in the living room on the ground floor"… over there.
Rebecca:
"With a blank look, she only responds to her father."
Yes.
"They walk to the sofa, then Rebecca sits on the sofa, inside the living room, to the left of the counter."
"Ludo squats down in front of Rebecca and begins to put a dressing on her wound."
Rebecca:
Hff!
Ludo:
Hey hey no grimaces, you've grown enough so that I don't need to tell you that.
You just have to endure a little, you won't kill a bear with this.
Rebecca:
It hurts, I can't help it if I'm in pain.
Ludo:
"Ludo smiles."
Yes, I know, maybe my Rebecca is too small to endure this kind of pain while I only press the dressing on her wound?
Who knows.
Rebecca:
Go ahead and make fun of me Dad if you want, but hurry up, put the bandage on me.
I feel like I'm going to kill someone with this pain remaining on my head.
Ludo:
I'll finish soon.
Now that I've put the dressing on you, I just have to roll up the bandage on your head so that the wound recover himself with time.
"He wraps the bandage with his roller around Rebecca's wound, going over it three times, then he lightly rubs everything together."
Rebecca:
Ouch aah!
Ludo:
Sorry, I have to do that if you want your wound to heal properly.
Rebecca:
I know I know, is it good?
Ludo:
"Ludo gets up."
Yes, it's over.
You can go back to the young man if you want.
Rebecca:
"Rebecca also gets up, but from the sofa."
"As soon as she started to speak, she put on her fake smile again."
Well, I'm going back then, thanks Dad.
"Rebecca go, thinking to return to her bedroom, before being stopped by Ludo who caught her by the arm."
Ludo:
I'm not done with you, stay here.
Rebecca:
(And now, my father gets also into it.
Just leave me alone seriously.)
All right.
"Rebecca sits down against her will on the sofa."
Ludo:
"Ludo in turn sits on the sofa near Rebecca, looking into her eyes before speaking."
You are sure that it was a fall that caused such an injury?
This injury is so serious that the only way I see to inflict yourself something like this is to fall on pieces of glass scattered on the ground.
Rebecca:
"Hearing these arguments, Rebecca instinctively avoids eye contact."
What if I was right and it's you who can't accept reality?
I see no point in lying, so why would I lie to you about it?
Ludo:
"Seeing that it bothers her, Ludo also stops looking at Rebecca head on."
Are you sure ?
Rebecca:
If I tell you.
Ludo:
Very well, if that's all, get up and go see the young man so that he doesn't feel alone in his bed, I have nothing more to say to you on this subject.
Rebecca:
"Rebecca gets up and goes to her bedroom, but she stops before going up the stairs when she hears this."
Ludo:
Rebecca, it doesn't bother me when you hide things from me and have secrets, not at all, but avoid lying to me or others as much as possible.
If you want one day to be respected, you are forced to put lies out of your mouth, a liar does not respect others by lying, he denigrates them, he considers that the truth is a futile thing without value, insignfiant.
However, the truth builds our relationships just like our interactions, flout that and you will live like a worthless person who will not be able to let anyone give you their full trust.
Rebecca, don't become a horrible person who can't stop lying to live normally.
Rebecca:
"Rebecca felt deep inside her a form of regret."
(Tss, as if it were that easy to tell the truth.)
"In a falsely cheerful tone that she had kept until then, she replied to her father."
Who do you take me for, Dad?
I'm not that type of person.
...
...
I will return.
"Rebecca this time definitely went to her bedroom, remaining inside, leaving her father alone on the sofa."
Ludo:
(It's so hard to understand what is going on in her head, my role as a parent is to ease my daughter's pain, but what happens when the pain is invisible to my eyes ?
Every time I look at you, Rebecca, I fear the fact that you may carry within you an inner suffering that you do not wish to share with anyone and which causes you to suffer constantly.
Maybe I'm rambling, it's just that the expression on his face is so different from usual that I've come to think like that.)
"Ludo gets up and returns to his place behind the counter, on his chair."
(I hope she opens up to me more often, even if it's hard for a young woman like her who has barely left teenage years to suddenly unpack everything that is in her heart.
I sincerely hope that if she is suffering, she can talk to me about it, at least a little on the day she decides it's time.)
"As soon as he stopped having introspective thoughts, Ludo picked up his diary which he had dropped on the ground when he discovered Rebecca's injury and then he began to reread it."