In the world where humans, demi-humans, elves, spirits, and demons existed plunged into endless wars by nations and their neighbour tribes. In hundreds of years later, one unified empire rose from the deep and stood in the centre of the continent be...
It is midnight at the frontline fortress of Alnus Hill, guards are patrolling the walls, infantries resting in the trenches, and the residents of the refugee town are asleep. Besides the slight breeze, the base is quite as usual. However, apart from the military hospital.
The hallways in the hospital are swollen by the pitch darkness, you can't see, nor touch, or feel. With small. light footsteps, darkness cracks open as a pure light shines through the way. A young lady in black Victorian attire patrolling around the hospital from room to room, hall to hall with a small oil lamp. Soon, she stops by a patient's room. She slowly opens the door and enters with the door shut behind.
The lady puts the lamp aside as it flickers, lighting up the whole room. Despite the dimness of the light, the patient wakes up anyway.
"Oh, you are awake King Duran," the young lady replies as she cleans his forehead with a new towel. Duran is in confusion as he tried to sit up, but the lady insists, "Please don't move too much, your wounds are not in good condition."
As he slowly gains his consciousness, he looks at the lady with a familiar sight, "You... You are the Germanian soldier who treated my wounds during the battle."
She smiles and says, "I am not a soldier, just a common nurse."
Then, she holds Duran's right wrist as she takes out a pocket watch and looks at it. In a moment, he asks the nurse, "Am I going to die, lady?" With these words, she replies, "Of course not my lord, I am just checking your pulse."
After a minute, the nurse put Duran's right arm back into the warm blanket. "Your pulse is normal, luckily you didn't lose lots of blood. If I didn't stop the bleeding in time, your life would've been in grave danger." The nurse fills a glass of clean water and reaches for a small clay bottle, she opens it and takes out a small object. She gives them to Duran and says, "This is a sleeping pill, a medicine that can help you get a better sleep." Then she instructs the king how to take it by swallowing the pill first then with a glass of water.
After the treatment, Duran goes back to bed as the nurse ready to take her leave. "If you need any help, press this bell button next to you and I will come to you in a short minute," she points to the button and takes her lamp towards the door.
The moment she touches the handle, Duran stops her and calls out, "Wait, can you please tell me your name?"
The nurse turns and does a small curtsy, "If it is your wish, I will come to your support at any time. I am the Head Nurse of the Imperial Germania Military Hospital, my name is... Florence Nightingale."
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I am Florence Nightingale, born from an upper household in the Kingdom of Letzebureg. My father is a wealthy merchant as my mother is the daughter of a lord from Baden-Wurttemburg. Although I only have an older sister we still get close to each other.
