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349. Apex II.

作者: Denny Ink
last update 公開日: 2026-08-05 20:29:14

Sage.

Nobody moved for a long moment. The only sound was the wind sighing through the shattered window, and my own breath, ragged and strange in a throat that didn't feel entirely mine anymore.

"Sage?" Nessa's voice came out small, uncertain, the phone still frozen in her raised hand. "Is that…are you still in there?"

I tried to answer and what came out instead was a low, rumbling sound, more growl than word. I flinched at it, at the wrongness of my own voice, and took a step back, claws scrapi
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  • The Mate They Threw Away   351. Teal Mist II.

    Sage.I hadn't made it three steps toward the office before Nessa's radio crackled with another call, and this time her face went carefully blank in the way it always did right before she delivered bad news."What," I said."Petra," she said. "She's crashing too. Different pattern than the others. Her silver toxicity markers just spiked instead of dropped.""That doesn't make sense. She wasn't connected to the same current as the ICU patients.""I know. I don't have an explanation. I just have a patient in trouble."I followed her at a near-run, the exhaustion in my limbs shoved aside by pure adrenaline, and found Petra thrashing weakly against her restraints, skin flushed an angry, unnatural red, monitor screaming a rhythm too fast to be sustainable."Her body's rejecting the chelation compound," Kessler said, already at her bedside, hands moving fast over the IV line. "The nymph minerals bound to the particulate matter like Strahovsky predicted, but the byproduct's acting like a tox

  • The Mate They Threw Away   350. Teal Mist I.

    Sage.The water Nessa brought didn't help as much as the news that came twenty minutes later."ICU's crashing," she said, breathless, appearing in the doorway of the small office where I'd been sitting wrapped in a blanket, still shaking from the transformation. "Multiple patients. Heart rates dropping in sync, like something's pulling them all down at once."I was on my feet before I'd fully processed the words. "Which patients.""All of them. Every infected case we've got in intensive care. Twelve total.""That's not possible unless…" I stopped mid

  • The Mate They Threw Away   349. Apex II.

    Sage.Nobody moved for a long moment. The only sound was the wind sighing through the shattered window, and my own breath, ragged and strange in a throat that didn't feel entirely mine anymore."Sage?" Nessa's voice came out small, uncertain, the phone still frozen in her raised hand. "Is that…are you still in there?"I tried to answer and what came out instead was a low, rumbling sound, more growl than word. I flinched at it, at the wrongness of my own voice, and took a step back, claws scraping against the tile.“Say something. Anything. Show them you're still you.”I forced my jaw to work, forced human shape into a mouth that wanted to stay animal. "Nessa," I managed, the word thick and strange but unmistakably mine.Relief broke across her face, quick and total. "Oh, thank god."One of the patients an older man near the far wall, still gripping his blanket like a shield — made a strangled sound. "That's a doctor? That's Dr. Winters?""She just saved this entire ward," Nessa said,

  • The Mate They Threw Away   348. Apex I.

    Sage.Corwin stabilized an hour before Strahovsky arrived, though "stabilized" felt like too generous a word for whatever state he'd settled into quiet, distant, his eyes tracking things that weren't in the room."He's not responding to standard stimuli," I told her, keeping my voice low as we stood just outside his door. "But he's not catatonic either. It's like he's listening to something we can't hear.""May I?" Strahovsky asked, already pulling on gloves."Go ahead."She examined him with the same clinical precision she'd brought to Saturn's autop

  • The Mate They Threw Away   347. A Favor From Black Crest II.

    Sage.I made it exactly forty minutes back into my shift before Nessa found me again, this time at a dead run."Trauma bay two," she said, breathless. "You need to see this now."I followed her at a pace just short of running myself, weaving through the crowded hallway, past cots and IV poles and the low murmur of frightened patients, until we burst through the doors of Trauma Two.The man on the table looked wrong in a way I couldn't immediately name."Found him collapsed near the eastern tree line an hour ago," said the paramedic still hovering by the door, voice tight. "No visible wounds. But his vitals keep spiking and crashing like nothing we've ever logged."I approached slowly, taking in the details my training screamed at me to catalogue. Pale, slack-jawed, breathing shallow but steady. And his skin, his skin had a faint, iridescent sheen to it that didn't belong on any werewolf I'd ever treated."What's his name," I asked."Corwin. According to the tags on his jacket," Nessa

  • The Mate They Threw Away   346. A Favor From Black Crest I.

    Sage.The public statement went out at two in the morning, and by dawn the clinic waiting room looked like the aftermath of a small war, cots lining the hallway, IV poles crowded three-deep near the nurses' station, the low, constant murmur of frightened people trying not to sound as frightened as they felt. Someone had propped the front doors open to let the corridor breathe, and even that hadn't been enough; the air still smelled of antiseptic and fear-sweat, thick enough to taste."We're out of standard chelation stock," Nessa said, appearing at my elbow with the particular grim efficiency she reserved for genuine crises. Her scrubs were stained at the cuffs, her hair escaping its knot in a way that told me she hadn't sat down in hours. "The pharmacy can't restock fast enough, and half the cases coming in now are advanced enough that standard protocols won't touch them anyway.""What would touch them?""Nothing in our formulary." She rubbed a hand over her tired eyes. "Strahovsky's

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