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Chapter 117 — The Drawings

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POV: Lewis | Location: Edinburgh

The Western General at nine PM was quiet in the particular way of hospitals at night — reduced to essentials, every sound carrying further than it should.

Harrison was in a private room on the cardiac ward.

He looked smaller in a hospital bed. That was the first thing Lewis noticed. The posture that had defined him for sixty years — the deliberate uprightness, the controlled stillness — was gone. Just a man in a hospital gown with a monitor clipped to his finger
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