Two days. Forty-eight endless, suffocating hours, and still he hadn't stirred. "It's been two days now… why isn't he improving?" Lena murmured to herself, her voice hollow with exhaustion. Her eyes, red-rimmed and swollen from hours of weeping, remained fixed on Tarzan's motionless face. She watched, waited, hoping for those eyes to flutter open, for some sign that he was still fighting. Slowly, she reached out and brushed a stray lock of hair from his forehead. Her fingers trembled as they traced the line of his cheekbone, as though touch alone could coax him back from whatever dark place he had wandered into. "Please," she breathed, her voice barely a whisper. "You've been so strong. You've fought so hard. It's time… it's time to wake up now, Tarzan… please." She sank back into the chair beside his bed, her body weighed down by grief and sleeplessness. She cradled his hand between both of hers, clutching it like a lifeline, as if she could pour her own warmth into him and wil
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