The air in Jamie’s hospital ward was stagnant, a thick soup of antiseptic and the low frequency hum of machines that felt like they were vibrating inside Noah’s teeth.Jamie looked less like a person and more like a collection of shadows held together by translucent skin.Noah stood at the foot of the bed, his face a mask of cold, jagged glass. He didn’t look at Kael, who was leaning against the wall, his breathing ragged and shallow. Noah’s voice, when it came, was a sharp, clinical command that severed the silence.“Heal him”Kael let a low, warning hiss, his eyes flickering with a dull, dying violet light. “You are asking for a tethering of life, Noah. It’s not something I can randomly do. This is not a simple mending of flesh. If I pull too much from the void while I am this depleted, I will fray. My essence will scatter”.“Do it” Noah repeated. He didn’t offer a plea; he offered an ultimatum. He didn’t care about Kael’s ‘fraying’, he only cared about the steady, rhythmic beep of
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