The doctor looked at Seo and pointed at the door.
Seo looked at Ruaan on the bed. The drip was already in his hand. His face was flushed and his breathing was even but too shallow. He looked smaller than usual somehow, which Seo had not thought was possible.
"Outside," the doctor said again. "I need to focus."
Seo left.
He stood in the corridor outside the infirmary with his back against the wall and his arms folded and listened to the sounds of the facility moving around him. The distant noise of skill day still running. Someone laughing two blocks away.
He had not noticed when Ruaan left the electrical room.
He had been too busy arguing with Cullen and by the time he looked over, the seat was empty. Cullen was still talking on and on. He hadn't noticed that Ruaan was simply gone.
He exhaled slowly.
'I shouldn't have taken my eyes off him.'
He was suddenly interrupted by footsteps.
He lifted his head to see who it was.
