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I am so sorry

–FROM THE JOURNAL OF DR SHANTI CALE, NOVEMBER 15, 2027

Sal is strangely serene about this whole situation I can’t tell whether it’s because she trusts Mother to fix things, or whether it’s because she’s holding her honest response in, waiting to see how the rest of us react before she allows herself to display any true e so hard to be controlled that I’s the way she wants to That’s dangerous Too much repression leads to self-harm, either emotional or--on occasion--physical

I should know

Anna remains stable but sedated Tox screens performed after Dr Banks shared ns of sedatives and anticonvulsants We are continuing with both drugs, in the absence of a better course of treatment If a better course of treatment does not present itself soon, I a, and failure is a risk

How many more of these deaths e be forced to witness? Because I’m just about done

--FROM THE NOTES OF DR NATHAN KIM, NOVEMBER 2027

Chapter 15

NOVEMBER 2027

Ada at Dr Cale’s hip; he’d been setting up IVs andpharmaceutical compounds since he learned to walk He, Dr Cale, Daisy, and Fishy got to work stabilizing Anna, while I was shooed politely away to find so that would keep lanced fro Anna to ht--he bent,in his mother’s ear, and followed me

We walked back to the elevator lobby in silence Nathan didn’t even ask where ere going; he just stood there, lettinguntil I was ready to speak