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@@@@@ ?No!?I screamed, lurching to his inert form, knowing it was far too late?No!? CHAPTER 54 Forgotten Elizabeth?? I asked?Anne? Karen? What's your name? C'mon The Healer's body was still limp on the cotIt had been a long time?how long, I wasn't sureI hadn't slept yet, though the sun was far up in the skyDoc had climbed out onto the mountain to pull the tarps away, and the sun beamed brightly through the holes in the ceiling, hot on my skinI'd moved the nameless woman so that her face would be out of the glare I touched her face now lightly, patting the soft brown hair, woven through with white strands, away from her face ?Julie? Brittany? Angela? Patricia? Am I getting close? Talk to mePlease?? Everyone but Doc?snoring quietly on a cot in the darkest corner of the hospital?had gone away hours agoSome to bury the host body we'd lostI cringed, thinking of his bewildered question, and the sudden way his face had gone slack I so much wished that the soul had waited for an answer, so I could have tried to explain it to himHe might even have understoodAfter all, what was more important, in the end, than love? To a soul, wasn't that the heart of everything? And love would have been my answer Maybe, if he'd waited, he would have seen the truth of thatIf he'd really understood, I was sure he would have let the human body live The request would probably have made little sense to him, thoughThe body washis body, not a separate entityHis suicide was simply that to him, not a murder, tooOnly one life had ended And perhaps he was right At least the souls had survivedThe light on his tank glowed dull red beside hers; I couldn't ask for a greater evidence of commitment from my humans than this, the sparing of his life