Chapter 419

XENOIS

The doctors discharged Lumina the next morning with a bewildered expression and a stack of prescriptions they admitted were mostly precautionary.

"We can't find anything wrong," Dr. Harrison said, reviewing test results for the third time like they might suddenly reveal something he'd missed. "No blockages, no arrhythmias, no underlying cardiac disease. Her heart is functioning perfectly—as if the cardiac arrest never happened."

"Then why did it happen?" I demanded, though I already knew the answer wouldn't be medical.

"We don't know," Dr. Harrison admitted. "Sometimes stress can trigger cardiac events in otherwise healthy individuals. The school attack yesterday, the trauma your family experienced—it's possible her body...