SoSuWriMo 313
This was the first time that she felt she was truly failing as a healer. Every other time that those inklings of feeling had crept up on her there had been some way for her explain them away. Like when her aunt needed help after Old Red collapsed, she couldn't heal Ghita because she had needed help herself. There were no such excuses she could offer her conscience this time around. It didn't even help that Amata was just as stumped as she was. It was her job to make people better and she couldn't. Even the water and broth she fed Artemis was a paltry effort. Anyone could do that, it didn't take any medical knowledge. She should have been prepared, and she wasn't, and now her little sister was wasting away before all their eyes.
Even though Gotham's voice may not have been as forceful as he may have hoped, she flinched at the words as if she expected to be struck. It was only her frayed nerves talking though, she knew she had nothing to fear from her brother. Cambria was often her own worst enemy. When he pulled her up into a hug, the Marino clung to her brother like her life depended on it, the tears squeezing past the wall she had tried to keep them behind. A soft sob was emitted against her littermate's chest. The girl knew her brother's words were the truth, but it was that unthinkable outcome that terrified her. "What if she doesn't?" she spoke painfully soft, afraid uttering those words too loud would make it true. What would happen if Artemis didn't wake up, only slowly withered away into death? What would happen to their family, to each of them? Would they ever be able to get over such a tragedy? Would she ever be able to forgive herself if that happened?
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