ned his wheelchai

pite the pale sickness in his skin, the raw power r

g near the monitors stopped argui

in his fifties with graying

lipboard onto a metal tray. "Is this a joke? We are fightin

ght past the doctors, stopping exactly t

a single,

chief physician snapped his mou

" Aron's voice was a low, gravelly

. She didn't look away

e of his body down to his legs, which rested

ut interject, his voice dripping with condescension. "MRIs, spinal taps, heavy metal

ou're looking in the wrong place," A

could react, A

hed a specific muscle cl

o his holster. The sound of a gun being

his hand aga

e, his gun

thumb harder into

microscopic twitch for

f her black leather gloves and tossed

tated, looking directly into

ctors

. "His blood work is completely clean

ated blue-ringed octopus. It doesn't bind to the blood. It binds to the bone

pupils dilated so fast his

o the day, he had been am

eyes vanished, replaced by a b

. She opened it and pulled out a small glass vial

"It will strip the toxin from the marr

ing the light. "No way. We need to send that to

own will take three hours. The toxin reaches his brain stem in two

y sound was the frantic beeping of the

stared

liquid, then up at Ayla'

ed out h

us!" Morgan yelled, panic

the vial from

ed the cork with his thumb, tipped his head ba

ripping the armrests of his whe