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Wires draped lazily across the shadowed room, linking a collection of assorted machinery to a single hospital bed standing at the heart of the orderly chaos.
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The off-white walls had been polished to the point where they reflected multicolored LED lights from the machines as they performed their various functions—some silently, and some not so silently.
A large pane of glass set in one of the walls shone softly, cleanly—and transparently, for the two white-smocked figures observing from the opposite side. The shorter woman scribbled idly on a loosely-held clipboard as t