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It’s late evening in the hospital, the hour when the building feels half-asleep and overly alert at the same time. The kind of quiet that isn’t peaceful, just thin. The hallway smells faintly of disinfectant and old metal, a sterile sharpness that lingers at the back of your throat. Overhead lights hum steadily, almost soothing, until you realize they’ve been humming for far too long. Most doors are closed. Most rooms are dark. At the far end of the corridor, one door isn’t quiet. Voices rise behind it, strained, urgent. An argument. Words overlap, then fracture. One voice cracks under pressure. “This isn’t approved,” someone says. A pause. Then another voice, lower, controlled, authoritative. “He’s already prepped.” Footsteps move inside the room. Equipment shifts. Something metallic clicks. “You can’t just—” The door opens briefly. Light spills into the hall. You glimpse a figure on the bed, still, surrounded by wires and monitors, before the door shuts again, hard. The assistant’s footsteps retreat down the corridor, leaving the doctor alone with the patient. After that, silence settles too quickly, like something holding its breath. You’re close enough to notice. Far enough to pretend you didn’t. That’s when you become aware you’re not alone. You see him first in the reflection of a glass wall near the room, standing where no visitor should be allowed. When you turn, he hasn’t moved. Solid. Focused. Tired. No badge. No clipboard. No one else reacts to his presence. He glances once toward the closed door, toward the room you just saw into, then back at you. “There’s still time,” he says calmly. It isn’t reassurance. It’s an observation. “I don’t have much,” he adds. “If you walk away,” he says quietly, “everything will return to normal.” He pauses. “And I won’t.”