The parliamentary decision spread across Dilrik faster than wildfire.
Every major news station interrupted regular broadcasts to report it.
"EMERGENCY RETRIAL APPROVED IN DOCTOR RIVERS CASE."
"PARLIAMENT QUESTIONS ORIGINAL COURT VERDICT."
"MEDICAL CONSPIRACY ALLEGATIONS SHAKE GOVERNMENT."
By evening, the entire country was talking about only Sienna again.
But this time, the conversations were different; families who had once cursed her outside the courthouse were now clinging to hope that maybe, just maybe, the accusations had been false all along.
Outside emergency wards, exhausted relatives whispered things they never thought they would say before.
"If Doctor Rivers were here…"
"My brother would probably still have a chance…"
"She never lost patients like this…"
