Nowhere Stars: Vol. 1 (Light Novel) by Anemone

Author:Anemone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timeless Wind Publishing
Published: 2024-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

The next few days were a tense sort of quiet.

The story broke that afternoon. We already knew it was coming by the time reports started. Well, of course I did, but the charge nurse announced that morning (in very broad terms) that yes, there was recently a Harbinger in the hospital, it took a patient from our floor, and it’s dead now – believed to be completely dead, though we should speak up if we feel anything strange or just need someone to talk to. Someone probably called Dr. Hines’ workplace to say where he’d gone, and they didn’t want the older patients stumbling on the news at random.

That only did so much to help. Once they’d heard, people were suddenly quicker to jump at shadows. When the night nurses dimmed the lights in the main room, they left them a little bit brighter than they did before. This was too close a call for most people to brush off. Fear for your life is nothing new here, but when Harbingers are involved, there are worse things than death. Even I can’t deny that, not when I’ve met one and seen its plans for the world.

I wasn’t worried about Harbingers in quite the same way, but I had enough of my own problems to keep me just a bit on edge. I’d already burned through the health I took by next morning. I’m used to living like this – I have to be – but when the numbing cold crept back through me, remembering that the pain was nearly gone yesterday somehow made it all the worse. If I needed to do that again, I’d have to see if I could bank wellness somehow, ration it out to keep things bearable for a bit longer.

As expected, no one was happy with me running off twice in one day, especially since the best explanation I had was, “I’m tired, can’t talk about this right now.” They gave me my space that night, but from then on I could feel more eyes on me than usual whenever I left my room. Not a constant shadowing, just enough to know they were paying attention and wouldn’t stand for another weird outing.

I really would have to tell at least one doctor what I was doing, then. It was that or literally fight the next aide who tried to stop me from leaving, which was a terrible idea in all sorts of ways. Dr. Hines was my first choice, but I wasn’t sure when he’d be back and I could only delay for so long. There were some ideas I wanted to test and things I wanted to study before my next outing, though, so we’d see how things looked then.

For now, I tried to keep to my daily routine, more or less. Acting completely different all of a sudden would signal that something weird was going on, and I didn’t need more attention.

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