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The hospital corridor is a long, sterile throat of silence. Then the sharp click of heels rips through it. Pauline Glick walks fast, a folder gripped so hard her knuckles are bone-white. The air is thick, a fight between sweet perfume and the bitter sting of smoke clinging to her clothes. Abruptly, she stops. Her lips press into a suspicious, bloodless line. A noise just echoed from the darkness behind her.