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Hope flickered as teams searched tirelessly, yet days passed and failures accumulated. Elliot weakened further, while Vincent abandoned business entirely, choosing presence over profit.
Eventually, Grandmother Ruth arrived with Jallen, challenging convention—offering observation instead of credentials, trust instead of certainty—testing Vincent’s desperation against his pride.
Exhaustion outweighed skepticism, and the doctors allowed the boy to look. Jallen studied Elliot not as a case, but as a story—listening where others measured.
He noticed hesitation during assisted breaths and pointed again to the hidden bend, prompting Dr. Monroe to reconsider angles once dismissed by routine.
When Elliot crashed again, an emergency endoscopy followed. This time, the camera lingered where fatigue had once rushed past—revealing a tiny plastic fragment.
It was lodged perfectly, forming a cruel valve that allowed survival while slowly suffocating life—undetectable by scans, yet deadly persistent, explaining weeks of mystery.
Doctors carefully removed the object—a blue pen cap fragment, insignificant yet powerful—as realization thundered through the room.
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