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Search PartyTHE SLANTED SUN RAYS ALMOST BAKED LUPIANNE’S CHEEK as she ran to the hospital. Behind her, Romain wheezed despite his ample summer clothes. As to confirm Clara’s reasoning, temperatures had climbed sharply since dawn.
Father and daughter stormed into the lobby and rushed to Sabian’s room.
They found him lying in his bed. Romain walked in and shook the man by the shoulders, inadvertently re-enacting the gesture Lupianne had done the night before.
“Get up! Get up!”
But Sabian’s head rolled to and fro, without waking.
“Dad, he had a dosage.”
Romain called Brunett Lurin, adding to his summoning an impressive range of expletives.
The doctor entered.
“Doctor… “
Lurin tapped his unit.
“I know!” he said.
He removed the pump injecting the sedatives with eff
