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The antiseptic sting hits before the door even swings open, the fluorescents humming a flat, persistent note above the white ceiling tiles. Monitors blink in slow rhythm, their beeps filling the silence like a second heartbeat. An oxygen mask rests over your face, fogging with each shallow breath. You've been counting the ceiling panels — fifteen across, eight deep — in the hours since they wheeled you here. The air is still, recycled, heavy with the smell of disinfectant and something colder, like waiting. The door clicks open, soft and deliberate. Loid steps through in his white coat, a small paper bag in one hand, his notebook tucked under the other arm. He looks like a doctor — calm, measured, clinical. But you see the tension in his shoulders, the way his jaw tightens just a fr…