The corridor outside the consultation room felt brighter than it had any right to be.Fluorescent lights stretched in long, uninterrupted lines overhead, reflecting against polished floors that carried the quiet echo of movement from distant nurses’ stations and passing trolleys. The air smelled faintly of antiseptic and something warm from a vending machine down the hall, an ordinary mixture that belonged to routine, not to endings.Tricia noticed the difference immediately.Inside the room, everything had narrowed to voices and breath and the careful placement of words. Out here, the world resumed its indifferent rhythm.The officer who had escorted Mark gave a brief nod to Greene before turning away, his presence already dissolving into the background of institutional procedure. Another nurse passed them with a clipboard tucked under her arm, barely glancing at the group gathered outside the consultation room.Life moved as it always did.Raymond stepped closer as the orderly adjus
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