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REBECCA Suddenly, the whole ward fell into total darkness - and silence: with horror, I realized that it was not only the light that was gone, but the electricity as well. The same electricity that made the machines that kept my daughter alive work. No! “The baby!” Mark exclaimed: I felt him rushing toward the crib - but the next moment, thanks to the Goddess, the emergency generator kicked in. The machines came rattling back, and a moment later the light came back, too, though not as bright as before: only a third of the lamps had come on - the protocol dictating that as much energy as possible should be saved, to direct it to the machines keeping the patients alive, must have been triggered. “What the f**k?” Wayne whispered. I rushed out of bed, reaching Bev's crib: Mark was alr

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