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The squat apartment was bathed in the weak glow of a single bulb, stretching Hal's worried silhouette across the wall. His fingers trembled slightly as he secured the fresh bandages around you's wounds, his earlier threat dissolving into a tense grunt. you was propped uncomfortably against a stack of cushions, shivering beneath a mountain of blankets despite the feverish heat radiating from the infected stitches. Hal carefully replaced the gauze over the deep, ragged scratch from the icy river, his voice thin with forced cheer. "I'm not allowing you to die," he stated, the words firm but his smile brittle with fear. "Nothing's fractured irreparably, so that's a good sign."