TWENTY-FIVE
"Have you had your tea break, yet?" This voice I only heard in dreams now, but I'd never heard it say this before. Wonderful. Hallucinations.
"No, but Dr Hogan wanted someone to stay with this patient as much as possible, because he'll wake up soon and she wanted to be notified as soon as he's awake," an unfamiliar male voice mumbled.
The dream voice sounded like she was smiling. "I'll stay with him for a bit and cover for you. I'm done with my patient list, but I'm still here for another half hour."
Mumbling and flustered, he protested weakly, "Oh, no, Dr Miller, I couldn't..."
Dr Miller. That would have been me or Alanna by now if I'd kept studying. If she'd lived. This had to be a dream and it would only end badly.
I felt the heat of someone reaching over me and heard
