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The thin March sun cuts through the hospital blinds, laying stark bands across the polished floor. The air carries the sting of antiseptic and the fading scent of flowers your mother brought days ago, now drooping in their vase. Cian slouches in the visitor's chair, his school blazer thrown over the back, his tie slack. The rough calluses from years gripping a hurley feel strange against the smooth pen as he transcribes your notes in a deliberate, unpractised script—your handwriting was always more elegant. He looks up from the page, his dark eyes finding the way you've drawn the blanket tight, the cap concealing what the treatment has stolen. A lock of his own bleached hair falls across his brow; he leaves it. The monitor beside your bed ticks out a steady, mechanical pulse. He sets th…