The soft click of the treatment room door shutting seemed to swallow the noise from the hospital corridor. The air inside was calmer, almost reverent, though somewhere beyond the walls, a thousand invisible eyes watched through live broadcast feeds. Arla-Rosa did not care. She had done this countless times in quiet corners of disaster zones, in village clinics where the floor was bare earth, in mobile tents where the wind tugged at the canvas walls. Cameras or no cameras, a patient was a patient. And Amelia Grace, frail, pale, and tethered to the rhythmic sigh of a ventilator, was hers to heal. Her boots barely made a sound on the polished floor as she crossed the space. The scent of antiseptic hung in the air, but beneath it lingered something more human, the faint trace of lavender lotion from Amelia’s hands, a reminder of the life waiting beyond this bed. Arla-Rosa paused beside the monitors. Oxygen saturation, heart rate, neural activity, she scanned them the way some people re
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