The room is quiet, lit by the soft morning light bleeding in through the tall arched windows. I'm slumped beside Tamsin's hospital bed, her hand cradled between mine. I've been here since the trial was over yesterday, a perpetual vigil, and Silas had to leave sometime in the evening yesterday, pulled away by his own need for sleep.Every now and then, I squeeze her hand in mine, just to feel her warmth, to convince myself that she really is at the verge of waking up, just like the doctor said. Each squeeze is a silent prayer, a desperate hope. But every time I squeeze and she doesn't respond, a cold tendril of doubt snakes through me. I start to think that maybe the doctor was wrong, that maybe she's never going to wake up, that the nightmare will never end.Her heart monitor, a constant, gentle beeping in the silence, spikes up a little, a small flutter on the screen. My head snaps up, and I sit up straight, already making to stand to my feet to call for a nurse, my heart pounding
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