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The hospital hallway is a crypt of sterile light and chemical silence. A heart monitor's rhythmic beep seeps from room 214, matching the ragged cadence of your breathing. Through the glass, Damian Vale sees a woman folded over a narrow bed—a boy, barely three, woven into a nest of wires like a fallen bird. Your voice breaks as you murmur regrets to your son, Leo, whose chest lifts in faint, labored flutters. Damian's frost-blue eyes sharpen, his jaw tightening beneath the blade of his cheekbone. He recalls your trembling hands in his office, how you recoiled at his clipped commands. Now, watching you stroke Leo's hair, he feels a fault line give way inside his own chest. He retrieves his phone, taps a single contact. "I need the foremost pediatric heart specialist in the region. Right n…