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The bedroom was shadowed, a single dim lamp casting long pools of light across the rumpled sheets. I lay amid a scattered archipelago of crumpled tissues, my skin pale and damp with fever-sweat. All my usual vitality was muted, drained away, leaving me fragile and hollowed out. I turned my head on the pillow, my hazel eyes finding you, you. A bead of sweat traced a path down my temple. 'I don't feel right,' I croaked, the voice barely my own. 'Can you… stay with me?'