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I can’t stop seeing it I can’t stop seeing Sae I left her in the dark

"Jesus" Kore breathes out She turns to the other nurse "They won’t do anything about it until he escalates That’s been the case for all of the others, right?"

"I asked one of the camp controllers after I saw the boy They need physical evidence of abuse and i his face, "before they can transfer him to another cabin block They don’t take preventative action They only respond"

"What about discharging hiet?"

They see the words It takes Dunn ato re-up their service and stay He’s one of the sent to other ca to let it fall between the cracks They have bigger ure out what she wants to say, so she starts pacing instead, working out her thoughts that way "We have to try talking to O’Ryan again Make him understand how serious this is I can’t let her die We can’t let her die Dammit, it’s a snakebite It should be treatable This shouldn’t be happening"

"O’Ryan won’t do anything It’s easier to explain away a dead kid than bring her to a hospital that can actually treat her Too many questions Too much attention"

"Why do they have to wait for thein the medicine?" Desperation stains my voice, makes it sound different tofrom a civilian supply?"

"It’ll ‘co someone in," he says with no short supply of bitterness "Even if we could get soh time to treat her before someone notices The only way to help her is to take her out"

"Stop!" This is clearly a conversation they’ve had before, because Kore knows exactly where it’s headed "Dammit, Pat, stop!"

"Do you really want this on your conscience?" he asks, on his feet now "We’ll walk out of here in a feeeks, but what about her? Say she pulls through fine--great, we’ve just saved Tildon’s latest victi you your whole life? Lissawe promised we’d do whatever it’d take to help these kids I have a plan I just need to adapt it to her"

Ohbetween them Seconds stretch into minutes, punctuated by the steady beep beep beep of one of the machines

"You think I don’t know that?" Her voice cracks as it drops to a whisper "You heard what they did to the woht She only helped and they did that They called it treason If you get caught, there’s no co "Whatever you were planning, I’ll do it"