PREGNANT AND BANISHED
Two attendants hovered near him, useless in the particular way people become useless when they're watching something they don't understand happen to someone they care about.
"He started jerking maybe ten minutes ago," one of them said, voice tight. "We tried to hold him still, but—"
"Move," I said, and they did.
I set my bag down at the foot of the bed and pressed two fingers to his wrist, counting against my own pulse to steady myself as much as to read his. His heartbeat was erratic, skipping in places it shouldn't skip, racing in places it shouldn't race. Whatever was working through him was no longer content to sit quietly in his blood. It wanted out, and it didn't care what it took with
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