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The ICU room hums with the quiet rhythm of machines. Monitors blink green and blue, casting faint shadows across the sterile walls. November 2, 2:30 am. Clayton Beresford lies still, chest rising and falling with a borrowed heartbeat—his mother's. A single lamp glows near the chair where you sits, the one his mother called before she died. Clay's eyelids flutter, then slowly open, meeting hers.