Chapter 59
‘We need to keep her blood flowing, and she needs as much oxygen as we can give her,’ Noah said, concentrating on pumping Lainie’s heart in rhythm. ‘I only need to stop her body from decaying. Across the Boundary people can stop for years and still be revived by the Fruit, because there’s no decay there—not for people, anyway. Here it’s different. Do you happen to know how soon cells begin to break down after death? I should have paid more attention in biology.’
Tessa had her fingers pressed against the wound on Lainie’s scalp, willing the heat to come, yet she knew there was really no point. ‘Cells break down all the time,’ she told him. ‘Even in life. It’s a matter of how many of them are lost, I expect. They didn’t exactly cover this in biology, Noah. I don’t know that this
