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The fluorescent lights of the Trauma Core buzzed a relentless, icy song over the frantic ballet of gurneys and lowered voices. The air, usually cleaved by the tang of sterilizer, held a faint, ghostly brine—the lingering echo of a child who’d drowned, her small form now resting somewhere in the silent halls below. Dr. Marcus Cadeon—Cade to the team—moved through the unit like a gathering storm, his snapped command sending a nurse scrambling. Across the shift, a different pressure built: Dr. Julian Vance, pulled from the night rotation, his arrival a tectonic tremor in the day’s fragile order. You, the reliable beta of the crew—or so the story went—buried yourself in patient files, the weight of the loss a constant, heavy ache against your sternum. But the scent-neutralizer y…