There is a particular kind of stillness that follows the worst moment of your life.
The world around you keeps moving. Carts roll past in hallways. Voices carry from distant rooms. Someone somewhere is laughing about something ordinary. And you stand in the middle of all of it completely unable to understand how any of it is still happening, because the thing that just occurred has made the continued motion of the world feel almost incomprehensible.
Ember stood in that stillness in a hospital corridor on the afternoo
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