Creature
Leeza describes the pain that is numbed by medications to a creature ready to pounce, sliding over her. Leeza has to go through a long time of pain before she gets any better and the medications given to her are only slightly reducing it. A handsome volunteer that comes to the hospital reawakens her will to get better, but is an unfortunate ironic twist of fate because of who that volunteer is.
Ember to ash
Reef is plagued by the feeling of guilt because of being unable to save the person who mattered the most to him. His grandmother who always supported him and tried to steer him into right direction in life died way too early of cancer, and he had to watch her body be eaten by the disease, like an ember turning to ash.
Cars and tin cans
After enthusiastically working in the greenhouse, fixing the glass, Reef gets himself a can of Coke and after drinking squeezes it until it completely loses its form. He remembers the photo of the wrecked car from the courtroom and thinks how cars are no more than tin cans. He tries to fix the can of Coke but it's pointless; it's ruined forever. There is no going back to fix something after the damage has been done.
