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CHAPTER 50 – SCRATCHING AT THE DOOR

Author: Mercy V.
last update publish date: 2026-04-16 13:37:53

Night made the hospital stranger.

Daytime noise flattened things—codes and pagers and cafeteria clatter all blending into a white roar that blurred edges. After twenty-two hundred, the sounds thinned. Every footstep defined itself. Every door latch clicked too loudly. Every scent had room to expand.

Lyra usually liked nights. Fewer visitors. Fewer administrators. More medicine.

Tonight, the quiet just made it easier to hear her own heartbeat.

By twenty-three hundred, the first three waves had l
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