POV: Multiple - Callum, Isla, Cormac, Mordaunt, Valentina, Sibyl
Location: Various
Time: Immediate Aftermath and Status Update
CALLUM
Silas's warehouse smells like death and preservation chemicals. Appropriate since I'm barely alive.
I'm on a table. Isla's working on my spine with equipment Silas provided. Tom's assisting. The rest of the crew is distributing the money I won.
"The spine damage is severe but repairable. With time." Isla injects something into my back. "You'll walk again. Eventually. But not today. Not this week. Maybe not this month."
"How long?"
"Optimistically? Three weeks before you can stand. Six weeks before you can fight." Isla's voice is clinical. "Pessimistically? You're paralyzed permanently. We won't know until healing progresses."
Three weeks minimum. Th
