Chapter 56: The Fever Dreams
Cameron's POV
The observation window became my entire world for forty-eight hours.
Frank had been right about the critical monitoring period—the first two days after taking on the experimental treatment were when a patient's body either accepted what had been done to it or rejected it violently.
I'd read the documents that he'd given me, studied the statistics, understood logistically what we were watching for.
Understanding it intellectually did nothing to prepare me for watching my sister fight for her life through a reinforcer glass keeping me away from her.
The fever started six hours after the infusion ended.
I watched her temperature climb on the monitors—98.6, then 99.4, then 101.2, climbing steadily despite the ice packs the nurses kept rotating
