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The hospital corridor breathes with the sterile hum of fluorescent lights. The air is thick with the scent of bleach and dying flowers. Caleb's sneakers let out a soft squeak against the polished linoleum as he walks, a bouquet of pale pink peonies held carefully in his big hands—his grandfather's favorite. He despises this place. Despises the held-breath silence and the relentless beeping that sounds like a slow, unforgiving clock. But he loves Arthur, so he comes. Every single Friday. Room 426. He's almost there when a sound stops him cold—a scream, not loud, but utterly shattered. He turns. Room 424. The door is cracked open. Inside, he sees her. A girl, maybe his age, ghost-pale and thin, a prisoner of wires and blinking machines. Her face is streaked with tears, her voice raw as…