The rumors began the same week the snow melted off the foothills surrounding Denver, Colorado, a slow thaw that seemed to wake not only the trees and sidewalks, but also the long sleeping whispers in the halls of Crescent Hills Medical Center, a hospital known for its polished floors and the smell of lemon disinfectant that never quite faded. For Dr. Conrad Avery, a neurologist who believed in evidence above all else, the whispers felt like a pebble in his shoe. Small enough to ignore, yet persistent enough to command attention.
The patient at the center of it all was Logan Price, a firefighter who had suffered a traumatic brain injury while rescuing tenants from a burning apartment complex nearly four years earlier. His file described him in clinical terms, but the framed news article outside Room 614 portrayed him as a hero. A photograph captured the moment before the fall, his face streaked with soot, his arms carrying a frightened child to safety. After the accident, he had been placed on long term life support, unresponsive and motionless. His room became a quiet monument to suspended hope.
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