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Text summary: (click to open) “Make the incision.”
The hospital space elsewhere melts away as competing thoughts wash over Aquila.
The beach.
The hospital bed.
Avi. Annie. “What?”
The scalpel. “Doctor, your patient.”
The beach, at dawn. The lighthouse purple.
The flood, about to wash the island away.
And then, cutting through everything — “Cut.”