Emaciated appearance

Before him stood Alice, but it was a very different Alice, he had never seen her like this, not even close to this appearance.

She tried to hide her face from him, but there was no time for that; Jared was already observing her, looking at the frail figure of the woman who, in a matter of weeks, was no longer even a shadow of what she once was. She was emaciated, to the point of appearing sick, lying in that bed, trying to shield herself from him.

Jared felt his chest tighten at the sight of Alice's so clearly deteriorated state. He ran a hand over his face, in disbelief, a bit perplexed by what he was seeing, astounded by the alarming condition she presented, and that striking thinness.

Losing all that weight so suddenly had definitely not been healthy, to the point of changing her appearance entirely, making her seem like a different person.

"Alice," the pronunciation of that name dripped with utter sadness, and in his anguish, he had to restrain himself from crying or showing too m