"Mama, do you think she will ever wake up...this is the week of..."

I heard the voice of a little girl, just before she was cut off by her mother, piercing through the thick fog of darkness coating my entire being.

"Shush...we will talk outside. Considering her vitals and her chi's rehabilitation, it is possible that she won't be asleep for so long now. Come, let us go towards the kitchen. Your father will be coming back anytime soon."

Dimly, I watched the mother take the little girl, whose height I couldn't determine due to the haziness. They hadn't noticed that I was awake.

As they walked out of the...