ned his wheelchai
pite the pale sickness in his skin, the raw power r
g near the monitors stopped argui
in his fifties with graying
lipboard onto a metal tray. "Is this a joke? We are fightin
ght past the doctors, stopping exactly t
a single,
chief physician snapped his mou
" Aron's voice was a low, gravelly
. She didn't look away
e of his body down to his legs, which rested
ut interject, his voice dripping with condescension. "MRIs, spinal taps, heavy metal
ou're looking in the wrong place," A
could react, A
hed a specific muscle cl
o his holster. The sound of a gun being
his hand aga
e, his gun
thumb harder into
microscopic twitch for
f her black leather gloves and tossed
tated, looking directly into
ctors
. "His blood work is completely clean
ated blue-ringed octopus. It doesn't bind to the blood. It binds to the bone
pupils dilated so fast his
o the day, he had been am
eyes vanished, replaced by a b
. She opened it and pulled out a small glass vial
"It will strip the toxin from the marr
ing the light. "No way. We need to send that to
own will take three hours. The toxin reaches his brain stem in two
y sound was the frantic beeping of the
stared
liquid, then up at Ayla'
ed out h
us!" Morgan yelled, panic
the vial from
ed the cork with his thumb, tipped his head ba
ripping the armrests of his whe
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