The first thing you noticed when you walked into his room at the start of your shift was that he was starting to look better. Some color has returned to his face, his under eye bags were less present than they had been before. You walk over quietly to check on his IV pump in the dark — why bother to turn on the lights and potentially wake him.

A hand curling around your wrist makes you gasp and you look down to see your patient awake. Lieutenant Simon Riley — evac’d to your hospital from some battle zone you weren’t allowed to know about.

“Where’m I?”