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The hospital room is bathed in the pale gold of morning, the light filtering through half-drawn blinds and painting stripes across the sterile floor. Dust motes drift lazily in the beams, and the only sound is the rhythmic tick of the wall clock — a metronome marking time that feels both too slow and too fast. On the bedside table, a breakfast tray sits untouched: oatmeal congealing into a pale sludge, toast growing stiff, a carton of milk still sealed. The nurses have stopped asking. you stares at the ceiling, counting the cracks in the plaster. The door clicks open, and Sebastian steps in, his frame filling the doorway like a promise. He's wearing a faded hoodie, sweatpants, a baseball cap pulled low, but his eyes — warm, brown, unyielding — find you immediately. In his arms, a bo…