DAMONI could hear people talking all around me, but I couldn’t comprehend a single damn word they were saying.The sounds collided in midair, smashing together into a loud, suffocating wall of white noise. Footsteps rushed past me like the wind, heels clicking sharply against the polished floor, doors slamming, paper rustling—everything was moving at a frantic, hyper-speed pace while I remained utterly paralyzed. My vision was completely blurred, reduced to heavy smears of sterile white light and passing shadows."Mr. Hilton? Sir, can you hear me?"A voice finally broke through the static, anchoring me back to the cold reality of the hospital corridor. I blinked heavily, the fog in my eyes slowly clearing until the grim face of the chief medical officer came into sharp focus. He was holding a clipboard, his mouth moving, his expression dripping with that practiced, heavy-hearted pity that doctors used when they had just failed."We did everything we could," his voice finally register
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