Leah
The healers came to the room quickly. Maren ran every test she had. Blood draws. Magical scans. Vital assessments. The examination took over an hour while I lay on the bed in our room, Darien on one side holding my hand, Keanu on the other. He hadn’t let go of my arm since the stairs. His fingers were still trembling.
“The viral markers are gone,” Maren said finally, scrolling through results on her tablet. “The noctis bloom eliminated the mountain infection completely. Your bloodwork is clean.”
“Then what just happened?” Darien’s voice was steady, but his hand was crushing mine.
“I don’t know.” Maren looked up from the tablet. I could see the frustration in her expression, the professional discomfort of a healer facing something outside her training. “All the indicators I can mea
