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“No one will die today,” she said.
She bent down to inject me in the arm.
I raised a hand to stop her. I opened my mouth to speak but the words were clipped by my snapping jaw. I wanted to tell her to give the adrenaline shot to the other patient. He was in better condition than me. He could still survive. I was more likely to die and it wasn’t worth wasting the medicine.
Hazel met my eyes. I turned my head to peer over at the other patient.
Give it to him, I was telling her.
She understood and stepped back.
“Prepare this patient for surgery,” she said.
Surgery?
Hazel slipped the needle into the other patient’s arm and administered the adrenaline.
The patient’s entire body tensed up, every muscle and fiber reacting to the sudden boost in activity. Then his body relaxed as the initial kick passed.
The one called Hazel dropped the syringe. She grabbed my bed and pulled on it, leading me down the corridor and into another room. This one smelled of death.
They knocked me out as the surgeon bent over me.
I might be doomed to die, but even a dead man can feel fear.
Nurse Hazel flashed a light in my eyes.
I waved my arms to push her away but I was too weak to even do that.
“Back in the land of the living, I see,” she said with a smile.
“What… What happened to me?” I said.
“You suffered a fit,” Hazel said. “Have you had them before?”
“Never.”
I blinked my eyes. Purple strobe lights followed wherever I looked, thanks to her flashing that light in my eyes.
“With any luck, you shouldn’t suffer from another fit in the future,” Hazel said.
“Thank you,” I said.
“Don’t thank me. Thank the surgeon.”
“Thank you anyway, Hazel.”
She smiled and cocked her head to one side.
“You have me at a disadvantage,” she said. “You know my name but I don’t know yours.”
“My name is—”
How should I respond? With one of my many titles? With my actual name?
Every Titan would recognize it immediately. And I couldn’t face them right now. Not with how weak and frail I was.
“Fiath,” I said. “My name is Fiath.”
