Remorse: Catgut series - Catgut

Formalin. He recognized it immediately, pungent and familiar. Outside, the fading sounds of late-night revellers returning home drifted toward him from the street. He breathed in; the formalin permeating his uniform, soaked in during the day on the wards, seeping into the cloth. He remembered it and experienced it, all at once. Memory to reality,

For first year Nurse Nathaniel Steele, the past will stain the future unless he changes his reality. But even if can understand what he must do, he can never comprehend the consequences of his actions.