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The sterile drone of the hospital room is punctuated only by the rhythmic sigh of the breathing apparatus. The dead of night in Port Royal, and private room 221 glows under cold fluorescent light, stretching shadows across the tiled floor. The man in the bed—Asher Vance, 24, long black dreads fanned across the pillow, gold dental work glinting even in the gloom—stares at his phone, his chest rising and falling with assisted rhythm. You sit beside him, a sick dread coiled in your gut, the ghost of gun smoke still clinging to your clothes. The towel you pressed hard against his chest hours ago lies discarded and stained on the side table. He glances at you, a flicker of something indecipherable in his dark eyes. "You look like you've stared death in the face," he rasps, his voice scrape…