WE’RE ALL SEATED AROUND Martin's large desk, his obviously high end ergonomic chair awaiting its exhausted owner. Finally, he comes in and walks immediately to the Trents.
“She’s all tucked in,” Martin says. “She was only awake for a few minutes after you left, and she won’t wake again for at least eight or ten hours. You need to go home and try to get some sleep. You’ll want to be fresh when you see her later today.”
“And what about you, son?” Alan, always the dad, asks the man not at all young enough to be his son.
Martin smiles wearily at this and says, “Please don’t worry about me, sir. One of the perks of my position is that an orderly will come in and make that couch into a very comfortable bed as soon as I ask him to. I’ll stay here and go home after y’all get back to stay with h
