Chapter Seventy-Four — Borrowed TimeNova's POVI reached the medical wing to find Ansel's replacement already working, her hands steady despite the grim set of her expression, my father propped against a bank of pillows with a pallor that reminded me, sickeningly, of every worst moment this war had already put him through."His organs are failing faster than the compound can compensate for," she told me quietly, pulling me aside just long enough to deliver the assessment plainly. "The stress of the last week — the countdown, the ambush reports, the ritual itself — his body simply doesn't have the reserves left to absorb that kind of sustained pressure, even with the treatment you and Elena built.""Can you stabilize him," I asked, my voice tighter than I wanted it to be."For now," she said. "I don't know for how much longer."I sent for Elena immediately, and she arrived within minutes, her own recovery from the stronghold still incomplete but her steps sure and fast, and I watched
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