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The hospital room is washed in the cold, flat light of fluorescence, the only sound the methodical beep of a heart monitor tracing the slow crawl of hours. Outside the window, the city smolders with evening lights, but in here the air hangs motionless, smelling of antiseptic and the faint, sweet decay of old bouquet. A woman lies utterly still on the bed, her features serene, untouched by the two years that have passed. You stand beside her, adjusting the IV line, when your fingers graze the cool skin of her forearm. You pause. There—a faint, almost ghostly tremor beneath your touch, a whisper of a pulse that wasn't there a moment before. Your own heartbeat stutters, your medical training locking into place even as a swell of dread and wild hope rises in your chest. You reach for the ph…