Groom Hornwell's 2022

Kalby followed the nurse down a hall of the hospital. The nurse turned back her head at him while they walked.

"So, where should I take you first, sire? To the recovery room?" She said.

"Uh, yes, please" Kalby answered.

They kept walking until they reached a door. The nurse pushed the door and kept it open for Kalby to enter.

Kalby looked inside the room, full with injuried ponies. Some were bare-coated while others wore black shirts. All of them seemed to be unconscious or asleep. Many of them had bandages partially covering their bodies.

"Huh?" Kalby expressed. He looked at the nurse "Aren't these from..."

"The Weapon, yes" she completed. "But some of them are workers from Sweet Apple Acres. We had to mix them up due to the lack of space."

"Okay, I understand. What happened to them?" Kalby asked.

"The farmers have burns, ranging from first to third degree. And the soldiers, well, the train they were going unfortunately derailed" the nurse answered, she raised a hoof and pointed front. "Please feel free to take a closer look of them"

Kalby nodded and advanced. The nurse waited by the door.

He was passing the beds, turning his head left to right. He reached the end of the room and had only seen unfamiliar faces.
He turned around and looked at the nurse. "She's not here"

"I beg your pardon? Are you looking for somepony in particular?"

"Uhh, yes, actually" he approached the nurse and they both left the room "Have you seen a white pony, with a blond mane and gray eyes, an-and her tail shaved? She was holding a camera around her neck"

They both were walking and the nurse looked down. "Uhm, I think I might have, sire..."

"Oh, really?! Where is she?" Kalby opened his eyes wide.

"Uhm, sire, I don't want to make rushed assumptions, but I think I seen her in the morgue. Although, I don't remember seeing a camera."

They were now on a hallway, passing rooms' doors. The path they were going became darker with every step. They finally reached an elevator in the end.

The nurse pressed a button on the wall next to the elevator. Its doors opened. The nurse entered first and turn around to see Kalby "Is something wrong, sire?"

Kalby pawed the floor softly. He sighed and got in the elevator "Believe or not miss, even on these difficult times, it's been a while since a saw a corpse"

Kalby positioned himself next to the nurse inside the elevator. Being an hospital elevator the space was large.

The nurse pressed a button and the doors closed. "Well, sire, you worry not. They are all inside compartments. I'll take you to the exact one" she said.

They started to go down.

Once the elevator stopped and its doors opened. Both ponies got out of it.

The nurse walked in front of Kalby. The hallways on that floor were all white and the ceiling had vents. But the illumination was poor.

Kalby didn't want to admit he had goosebumps. He walked with his tail between his legs. No, wean up, dung it!. He straightened his head and tail.

Again, they reached the end of the path, which lead to a door. That door of black metal contrasted with the white floor and walls.

The nurse went forward and pushed the door. A cloud of cold air escaped from the room.

Kalby and the nurse went inside the freezer.

The room they found themselves had silver metallic walls and a floor of white tiles like the ones of a shower room.

On both the walls on the sides of the cold room there were like square wide lockers.

"Uhm, let's see..." The nurse got close to one of the locker walls and started to walk next to it. She looked at every locker, and read the labels: "Male...,No..., Black coat..., Uhm this one is not" She reached the corner of the wall, and turned his head at Kalby "I believe it's this one" She put a hoof on the locker, tapping it twice.

Kalby inhaled, he was by the black metallic door and hadn't dared to move since he entered the freezer. "Alright, let's see her!" He approached the nurse.

The nurse put her hoof through the locker handle and pulled.