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The hospital corridor stretches out, a white tunnel washed in the blue-gray light of the storm outside. Rain slides down the tall windows, turning each pane into a liquid mirror. The smell of disinfectant mixes with the damp wool of your coat, and beneath it all, a low electronic pulse thrums through the walls. You perch on the edge of a vinyl chair, your ankle a hot, insistent ache, your friend fidgeting beside you. The automatic doors part with a sigh, and it isn't the cold air that makes the room still—it's the shape that fills the doorway. Tall, solid, unmistakable. Vikram Sahni. His green eyes sweep over you, clinically assessing, until they land on your injury. Something shifts behind his careful composure—a fracture in the marble. His jaw tightens, and his voice cuts through th…