Kai
The health center had a sterile, antiseptic smell that always hit me the moment I walked through the sliding doors, but today it was laced with something rotten. It clung to the back of my throat, a nauseating undercurrent that made me want to gag. I could feel Thunder, restless in my mind, disturbed by the scent.
I made my way down the quiet hallways, the sounds of my boots against the linoleum floor echoing off the walls. This wasn't like the hospital where I had been tethered to life, with its bustling nurses and constant beeps of machinery. This place was different—quieter, somehow more intimate—and it was where Alexis worked her healing magic.
As I approached the room where Erin was kept, I noticed the door ajar, and I paused at the threshold. The scene inside hit me harder tha
