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looked up when chatter
disturbed her macabre thoughts.
    The nurse, wearing a colorful smock and
pants, stopped in the door with a swift frown. She flipped through
the file and then shrugged. Swiftly she walked to the side of the
bed, peered at the monitor behind the body, and then tsked.
    “ Well, Paz, good morning to you .”
    Morning?
    Paz looked over her shoulder at the window. A
faint pink cloud crept along the horizon. When had it turned
night?
    “ And how are you this fine
morning ?”
    “Fine,” she said, wishing like hell the nurse
would look her (not the body, but her) in the eye.
    The nurse smiled, never glancing up as she
patted the body’s cheek. “ You know, doc says you’re in a
coma .”
    Really?
    Paz nibbled her lip. Weren’t comas bad?
    “ But I don’t think ,” the nurse smiled
again, “ you are. Because you see, for the past two mornings,
you’ve kicked your sheets off, and I know comatose patients can’t
do that .”
    The young blonde nurse fiddled with a clear
bag of fluid.
    “ And if you can hear me in there ,” she
peered straight at the body’s face with thinned lips, “ you wake
up, sweetie. We’re all pulling for ya .” With a nod she turned
on her heels and made for the exit.
    Paz’s heart sank. “But I’m right here. I do
hear you.”
    She trailed the nurse, trying to tap her,
hoping in some way to make a connection to another soul.
    “ Oh, before I forget ,” the nurse
clapped the door frame, “ we’ve found your brother. Says he’s
headed here tomorrow! Exciting, huh ?”
    Then she was gone and her smell of vanilla
went with her.
    Suddenly cold, depressed, Paz hugged her
middle.
    “Where are you, Jinni?”
    She didn’t know him. But he’d seen her. She’d
seen him.
    “I need you.” A solitary tear tracked like a
cool pinprick of ice down her cheek.
    A loud beeping sound blared through the busy
corridor. Suddenly an explosion of bodies ran toward a room two
doors down from hers. Curious, Paz glided to the doorway, shivering
each time a body walked through her.
    “Damn air’s too low again,” someone muttered,
but never glanced back. Never stopped to think they’d walked right
through her.
    Her nurse was at the head of a bed. A very
small body lay hidden within the deep folds of the blankets.
Flowers were strewn all across the room, get well cards bedecked
the walls. Children’s pictures graced every square inch of the
place.
    Hands were ripping the sheets off.
    “Code Blue. Code Blue,” was repeated over and
over and over, until the room seemed crammed with bodies
desperately trying to revive the child.
    Squeezing her eyes shut, Paz walked away. She
couldn’t watch this. Death wasn’t as painful as she’d always feared
(if this even was death), but watching a child transition from
there to here wasn’t something she relished either.
    She moved away, not really paying any mind to
where she walked. So long as she stayed away from the end of the
corridor she was fine.
    She’d already seen a few bodies not make it.
But not once had she seen someone else like her. Except for Jinni,
and he hadn’t returned since she’d talked to him last.
    Suddenly she stopped, gripped with a
desperate desire to turn around. Heart thundering, or at least the
memory of that emotion, flickered like a bright flame inside her.
She turned and frowned.
    A body lay in there. But this one wasn’t
bruised, swollen, or dead looking. Without realizing it, somehow
she’d found her way to his side, and stared at the face that she’d
almost forgotten.
    “My Todd,” she whispered, feeling the first
faint echo of a smile tug at her lips.
    She traced his face, hissing at the warmth of
it, reveling in the texture of firm skin for as long as she
possibly could before she became too tired and had to pull
away.
    “You are so beautiful.” The words spilled
from the depths of her soul.
    Thick black brows shaded a pair of eyes that
were closed, but that when opened sparkled deep whiskey