TGoaW-78

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==Chapter 78 - The Glow of a Worm inside a Child's Eye==
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"I feel like shit...
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...and it's already been two days." Elizabeth replied. "Is it? Is it early?"
"Brain scans don't show the normal damage patterns that should be the aftermath of a Cholmann's seizure. You may be an atypical case." Dr. Faustine brought up the holographic composite from the medical scans. "My theory is that the experimental treatments may be doing more damage than leaving it be."
"Oh, well that's ****** amazing." the girl's sarcasm dripped. "So instead of buying me time, we've been making it worse."
"It would appear so. Describe your experience."
"I felt like I was immersed in boiling metal." she said, "Everything was on fire, and at first I didn't even know who was screaming so much."
"That...would be you, Baroness." the experimental physician confirmed, "Your seizures began just as the car was about to cross the first checkpoint on the way off the Triad campus. They abated five minutes after..which is presumably when you regained rationality."
"****** obviously." she confirmed, "I came to in the emergency room. So what made me kick off three years early?"
"We're not sure. What I can tell you, is that for the intensity of the episode, you have remarkably little actual brain damage."
"Small favors then." Liz groused. "When do I get to go back to work."
"We'll try...never. never sounds like a good plan, only Her Majesty probably won't accept that. So, I'm going to hold you for medical observation for at least sixty days, to see if we can determine what caused the early onset episode and what will be needed to prevent another one."
"You're all heart doctor. I didn't clear my school exams and get an early degree to never work again." Elizabeth glared, "as far as I know, my time is limited, and this makes it more limited."
"Which is why I'm glad I don't work for you, but the Archon and the Royal Family instead." the Doc said brightly, "You're on bed-rest for at least seventy two more hours, no stress, no working. play video games and be a sick kid while we figure this out."
"What's our best guess??" she asked.
"Since when did you get interested in internal medicine?" he shot back.
"Since I'm stuck in a bed for three more ****** days, I might as well find out what in the hell is happening to me..."
"We're waiting on testing." he said smoothly, "Did you know you're running a fever?"
"Uh...no?"
"Yeah. three days bed-rest while we figure this out, and if necessary I will have the nice men from Lohengrin put you in padded shackles, or you can be a cooperative patient for once in your life."
"I'll be good, okay?"
"We'll see."
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