The intertwining steel bites together, sometimes making you feel like the entire Perpetual Motion Pump is a mechanical life with a soul, its heavy and complex mechanical structure acting as organs, with blood-like electric currents flowing through metal-cast conduits.
The boy lifted his head to look at the metal ceiling above. Perhaps every person who wakes up from a hospital bed shares a commonality—the first thing they see upon waking is not a concerned gaze or fireworks surrounding them, but merely a monotonous ceiling.
"You look quite good, kid, the armor protected you. Otherwise, you might never have woken up again."
The doctor examined him upon seeing him wake up and told him what had happened during his coma.
The boy didn't speak, just stared blankly at the ceiling, immersed in his own world.
The doctor seemed accustomed to this and paid no mind to the boy's reaction, continuing his tasks and placing new medications on the other side of the bed.
