Arwen's POV
The medical ward is in the west wing on the ground floor, a series of clean white rooms that smell like healing herbs and antiseptic and the particular stillness of spaces designed to slow everything down. I have not been here before. I go directly from Draven's room with Marcus ahead of me and Draven behind me and I don't stop to think about whether I should be here because the question has an obvious answer.
Elena is my roommate. Elena has been writing symbols on her wall in an unconscious state, symbols that match the frost patterns from my floor, and whatever is happening to her is connected to me in ways I do not fully understand yet.
I should be here. There is no version where I am not here.
The physician on duty is a small precise woman named Dr. Calloway who looks a
