Cosette and malnourishment ( a Les Mis drabble )
When Cosette first entered the convent
She doesn't just have bandages from head to toe
She is also malnourished and underweight from all the times she nearly starved to death in her years at Thenardier Inn
So, not only Cosette was in a 3-year suicide watch period
She also is in a one year malnourishment recovery period, where the medical nuns helped design a special recovery diet for her ( like adding in the lack of protein AND vitamins in Cosette from those horrid years at Thenardier Inn )
And sometimes, her panick attacks and nightmares can get so intense, that Cosette had to spend some nights sleeping at the medical wing of the convent for that 3 year suicide watch period
Usually, malnourishment takes 5 or 6 months to recover.
Yet Cosette's malnourishment recovery took longer than expected
That's just how serious Cosette's malnourishment is when she first entered the convent
In fact, when she first entered the convent, her malnourished and underweight self, with bandages head to toe, shocked the nuns, gardeners and the students there to the point that they instantly began treat her with mercy
Some of them even shed some tears over horror and shock, of who could do such cruel things to a young child
Cosette covers her bandaged self with gloves and sleeved clothes from head to toe, even in summer days
As the medic nuns helped heal her injuries, and helped her recovery from malnourishment
At times, when those medic nuns helped her recover from such injuries and sickness
They would weep, with respect over the sheer spiritual strength of the child, and the horror of who could do such cruel things to a child
With these acts of kindness,
At first Cosette is both overwhelmed, terrified and touched at once
She sometimes thought that all these acts of kindness are just a wonderful dream, or that she actually died and went to heaven
Yet Valjean, and those nuns and gardeners, and her convent school friends, told her repeatedly that all these are real, that no child deserves to go through what she been through, and all that she experienced as a kid is not her fault
When Cosette first entered the convent, she was also one of the shortest girls in her class
By the time Valjean and Cosette left the convent, Cosette becomes a beautiful and lovely lady with a curvy figure and rosy cheeks, a stark contrast to her malnourished and underweight self when she first entered the convent
As Cosette grew,
Her heart is filled with so much love,
That she cannot imagine treating someone with such violence and cruelty that Monsieur and Madame Thenardier treated her in those horrid years, no matter who that may be.
