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Something broke.
Something deep inside of me broke.
I felt it break.
And then I couldn’t move.
I couldn’t do anything but lie there.
I didn’t know if I was even breathing.
In fact…
“No, no, no,” the woman—yes, it had to be a woman—bent over, and I could see her hair as it fell over me.
It took me a long time to focus as she held onto my face.
“No more moving,” she ordered.
I licked my lips and tasted blood.
“Forest,” I tried to whisper.
It didn’t come out, though, because she shooshed me. “I know. I know it hurts. The medics will be here soon.”
That hadn’t been what I’d been intending, but it was good to know that they were on their way.
I was hurt. Seriously hurt.
“I’m…” I took a breath that felt like I was breathing through glass. “I hurt.”
I hadn’t intended to say that.
I’d intended to ask about… something. Someone.
What was I going to ask?
“It’s a good thing that you feel pain,” I heard Shayne say.
Shayne.
That was her name.
And, because I knew she was trying to distract me because of how bad it was, I asked, “It is?”
“Well, yeah.” Shayne leaned over, her eyes focusing on mine. “I have a condition. I don’t feel pain. Like none. But at least when people can feel pain, they can tell themselves to stop doing whatever they’re doing that’s causing the pain. I can’t do that, because I don’t know that I’ve hurt myself.”
The pain was almost overwhelming now.
“I wish I didn’t feel pain,” I whispered to her.
She ran her finger along my brow, causing me to momentarily focus on the path of her finger.
Across my forehead. Over the bridge of my nose. Down to my top lip. Then back again.
Over and over and over.
“This is something I learned from a Korean acupuncture specialist. She was amazing and taught me so much stuff. This is one of the pain relief zones,” she murmured, continuing it.
