Chapter 11
The course of true love never did run smooth.
—William Shakespeare
VIP Ward, MoxMedical Total Care Unit
San Francisco, California
11:20 a.m. GMT-8, January 15, 2023
"If you love. If you truly love…," murmurs Peter as he thrashes about, pushing the limits to rolling and tossing in a hospital bed. Sheets are flung across the edges, covering the medical monitoring equipment. Pillows diagonally planted across his face and arms. Bed railings padded with his blanket.
Samantha restrains the nurse from re-initiating the coma, pointing to her MoxWrap description of the ancient affliction. Men of the ancient matriarch's lineage have highly disturbed sleep. MoxWorld experts told her that an ancient traumatic incident, or several incidents, are hard-coded into their genetic memory, a
