It is, I know it is. It’s unfair and cruel and not how things should be.”
Conor didn’t answer. “I’ll be back a week on Sunday,” his father said.
“Just keep that in mind, okay?” Conor blinked up into the sun.
It really had been an incredibly warm October, like the summer was still fighting to stick around.
“How long will you stay?” Conor finally asked. “For as long as I can.”
“And then you’ll go back.” “I have to. I’ve got–” “Another family there,” Conor finished.
His father tried to reach out a hand again, but Conor was already heading back towards the hospital.
Because no, it would work, it would, that was the whole reason the monster had come walking.
It had to be. If the monster was real at all then that had to be the reason.
Conor looked at the clock on the front of the hospital as he went back inside. Eight more hours until 12.07.
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“Can you heal her?” Conor asked. “The yew is a healing tree,” the monster said.
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