She tasted L.
Jennie's
She smelled peppermint and calyptus
Joshua's shampoo.
"Mummy's waking up soo
Justyn's vol
up soon. Henry, don't cry!
lly, Kirs opened her eyes.
Sheshers
The kids had red-rimmed eyes.
Austyn's mere bloodshot
None of them blinked
None of them dared to draw broth.
Finally, winched for the bedside call button
Jennie and Joshua each held her hand and subbed
A doctor came into examiner.
she had no physical injuries.
The doctor shoe tiny torch in her eyes,
She didn't move, didn't bánk
Austyn called her name.
She did not respond, did not appear to have heard him.
Jennie and Joshua bath called out to her.
She did not reply
she stared into space, her body motionless
"What's wrong" Austyn asked the doctor, trying to suppress his anxiety and tear.
"akbetic rataonia," the doctor sal, drawing ban wide
Jaalima caught unippets at the doctor's wards.
complete lack of sprintances speech and movement. Fallent is fully aware. Misual tracking is preserved. Put heren lorazepam... The Reat Murderer
'When will she wake up?" Austyn hissed.
"A precise prognosis is difficult at this point in time. It depends, in large measure, on the patient herself. She'll wake up when she...wants to Joshua stared at Kira's blank face.
She looked like one of Madame Tussauds' wax statues.
"Mummy, do you not want to wake up?"
Austyn dismissed the doctor, working hard to contain his fury.
He came back to the bed and held Kira's hand.
He was filled with self-reproach and regret.
If only he'd put his foot down and kept her at home.
If only he'd been more stern with her.
If only he'd gone with her to that apartment....
Ryan knocked on the open door.
None of them inside the ward heard him.
He walked in.
'Let me take the kids out for dinner,' he said quietly. "They have not eaten anything for hours."
Austyn ran a hand over his haggard face.
'Okay!
He called Isabel when the kids were having dinner at the hospital cafeteria.
She rushed over.This belongs to - ©.
"What happened?' she tiptoed into the room and whispered.
The kids were asleep on another bed next to Kira's.
Austyn turned around. 'I need you to take the kids home and stay with them tonight'