18HolleyI stared down at Killian's weak body and reached out for the umpteenth time to touch his hand, hoping that those gentle touches would eventually ground him and bring him back to the present.
Hospitals had always terrified me, from the time that my grandparents had died when I was a kid. There was always that smell to them, and that look that doctors gave you when there was nothing more that they could do.
That look may not have been directed towards me this time, when it was Killian who was there, lying limp against their pale green sheets, but that didn't make me feel any better. Every time I saw the doctor, I expected to see one of those looks.
Fortunately, it didn't come.
I was surprised, that day, to see the way his eyes flickered, as though they might open at any second. O
