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Chapter 16
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2026-10-13 17:13:00Dr. Parks arrives in twenty minutes with his leather bag and his silver hair and his warm grandfatherly smile.
He kneels beside Sophia on the sofa, takes her pulse, shines a light into each eye and murmurs soothing nothings while Margaret hovers behind him with a handkerchief. Then he straightens, folds his stethoscope into his bag and turns to the room with an expression of deep and measured concern. "Her levels are dangerously low," he says. "I am a
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