Claire POV The rogue attacks continued to affect the entire kingdom, until it hardly seemed like a single day went by without hearing about a new attack, fresh destruction, more lives lost. And the clinic slowly but surely began to flood with patients brought in from the border areas, either by the medics that traveled with the warriors defending the border or by their desperate families. Some people were severely injured, their conditions made worse by having had to travel so far to get the help they needed. Our beds filled quickly and the clinic itself, already short staffed and low on supplies, struggled to keep up with the care these people needed, and deserved. And they just kept coming. One morning I arrived to find the grassy areas around the clinic filled with makeshift tent

