![]() They've heard a whole bunch of crazy and awful stories of what happens to soldiers who stay too long in the bush, how they get that thousand yard stare, like they've seen hell, appearing not quite so human in the aftermath.so, maybe this isn't all that different? Maybe Terry is simply ill and this will pass? Maybe it is treatable? Regardless, John is a ride or die in the most unhinged way possible - the type that can keep a secret no matter how outlandish seeming that secret may be. Terry is somehow different when he recovers, unable to bear sunlight, landing him in an infirmary several times and nearly having him sent back home and discharged (and only upon his desperate insistence does this not happen), relegating himself to dangerous night watches instead (the army camp doctors diagnose him with an eye tear and the sensitivity to light due to exposure to an explosion or a grenade, which of course is the furthest thing from the truth), not feeding properly which makes him even scrawnier and he hungers and craves blood, and for the longest time, both John and Terry think these are simply the after effects of Terry being shell-shocked, or rather, traumatized from his time in combat. How it happens is less important than what happens later. ![]() Could've been an injury infected with something putrid, throwing young Terry into a fever he barely survives in the jungle, slowing down his platoon and having Captain Turner command Kreese to leave Silver, serving as a weak link, behind multiple times, which he doesn't, but I digress. ![]() ![]() Could've been another frenzied soldier lounging at him and biting in a flash of violence could've been another American. ![]()
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