"You need to tell me everything," Helena said, standing up to face him.Alexander looked up at her from the couch, his colour slowly returning. "There's nothing to tell.""Nothing?" Helena's voice rose. "You nearly collapsed in front of a hundred people tonight, Alexander. Your vitals are all wrong. Your symptoms point to catastrophic systemic failure, and you're telling me there's nothing to tell?""I had a dizzy spell…""I'm not buying that. That's not what that was!" Helena paced in front of him, trying to catalogue every symptom she'd witnessed. "Violent tremors, severe pallor, diaphoresis, tachycardia, hypotension, altered consciousness. That wasn't a dizzy spell. That was a full systemic crisis."Alexander sighed, rubbing his face. "Helena, you're overreacting.""Am I? Then explain the blood work.""The blood work was perfect. You saw the results yourself.""Exactly. Too perfect." Helena stopped pacing, her eyes boring into his. "Nobody with those symptoms has completely normal
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