“Good morning, Miss Lavrel.I am Mrs.Brooks, and I would like to say that you were part of the most noteworthy moment in our hospital’s history.We have a particular situation put into our drills, but we never knew what it was for, until last night.”
Mrs.Brooks turned a tablet to show a glowing dark elf holding her carefully and blazing through the hospital, and then the path cut from camera to camera until Isocar was in the surgery and the medic was outside, sobbing into her hands.
Isocar blinked.“Can I see her face?”
Brooks tapped the screen, and the tear-stained face looked up at the camera.“Familiar?”
“That’s my face.”
“She calls herself your cousin, but I think the relation is closer.”Mrs.Brooks said, “You don’t know her?”
“No.I haven’t ever seen her.She brought me here?”
Mrs.Brooks pulled the tablet away.“If you want to see more of her, check your phone.Her life-flight with you is viral.You can’t miss it.”
Isocar looked from left to right.“Where is my phone?”
Lenora smiled.“I have it.”She pulled it out.“We charged it.”
Isocar moved as an incredible ache ran down her right side.Her ribs were shifting and healing.She opened her phone and looked up local news.“Oh, my holy moonbeams.”
The footage started from the medic’s uniform based on the angle, and then the XIA got the door open.The woman got her out, held her carefully, and then stepped into the hands of a minotaur to be propelled upward.
From there, all hell broke loose.A streak of white energy formed wings, and the medic blazed a path that was tracked by multiple cameras, holding her with an IV in her arm and a saline bag in her lap.
Mrs.Brooks said, “That IV saved your life, by the way.Your skin is shockingly hard to pierce, but it let us sedate you to the point where the surgeons could subdue your healing until they finished repairing ruptured vessels.”
“How did she know that?”
“Ah, I talked to her about that, and she mentioned running scenarios until you survived.This was that final plan.”
Isocar looked up.“What’s her name?”
“Nylora Mills.”
Lenora jolted.“Mills?”
Mrs.Brooks nodded.“Mills.”
Harcourt looked at his wife.“What are the odds?”
“Pretty good, dear.It’s probably why Isocar’s grandmother brought her over as a babysitter.Family calls to family.”
Isocar looked up.“What?”
“If she is a Mills and you two are related, then you are also a Mills, and so am I.My maiden name.”Lenora smiled.
Isocar carefully looked at them.“Do you know her?”
The Gangers shook their heads.
Isocar looked at Mrs.Brooks.“How can I get in touch with her?”
“She was on the night shift, but I think she will be here tomorrow.She wanted to give you a day to recover.You should rest.More scans will be done on you.You were three minutes from death, according to our surgeon and the techs.They are studying your scans and the records from the surgery to use them as teaching tools.”
Isocar nodded.“Right.Of course.Did my insurance cover my bill?I can pay cash.”
Brooks smiled.“It’s covered.The hospital has been full of donations to pay for your care, which is not the normal response when dark fae are involved.”
