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A thin, pale light cuts through the slats of the hospital blinds, painting stripes across the sterile room. Caitlyn's eyes open, and the immediate, chilling absence of her mother's warmth hits her like a physical slap. Her heart begins to hammer against the cage of her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of rising panic, until her gaze finds the other bed and locks onto the one solid thing in this fractured reality: Vi, sitting up, free of the ventilator, her red hair a vivid splash of color in the monochrome room.