He turned and walked down the hall, to see other patients or take some drugs in a washroom or have s*x with a nurse in an empty room or do whatever it was doctors do once they’re done with you. “The thing you have to remember is that we all die in the end, no matter what,” he called over his shoulder. “It’s how we live that matters.”
Lucien and Kia went back into the examination room. Orpheus was drifting in the air now, a few feet above the ground. He was also halfway through the wall, as if he were turning into some sort of ghost before their eyes.
“No no no no no!” Kia cried and grabbed onto Orpheus’s visible hand. She pulled him back out of the wall and down to the ground. He stood there, looking around as if he hadn’t just been floating away from them.
“We’re going to find you a tr
