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Years ago—back when her world had been hospital hallways and fluorescent lights—she’d learned how fear worked.
It wasn’t the screaming kind people imagined. It was quieter than that. It slipped in under the skin, slowed time, turned the body inward on itself. She’d seen it in patients who froze when blood hit the floor, in parents whose hands shook too hard to hold onto their children, in interns who went pale and empty the moment something went wrong.
Fear locked joints. Stole fine motor control. Made people small.
Adrenaline was different. Adrenaline sharpened. It narrowed the world into something manageable, stripped it down to essentials. Breathing. Pressure. Warmth. Stay alive.
or
an injured simon riley appears in your backyard
and you nurse him back to health.