"So... why on earth are you doing this! Will I even be able to walk out of here alive? Could this actually be my dying breath?"
At this very moment, a deathly pale Eleco sat alone on the cold, hard bed, his eyes hollow and lifeless as his mind raced in a frantic tangle: how on earth had things ever come to this?
Just a short while ago, when he awoke from a deep sleep, he had found his wife, Stephie, already waiting for him. Eleco had initially assumed something had slipped out of Stephie's control, which was why she was waiting for him to wake up. As it turned out, things certainly had slipped out of control—just not in the way he thought.
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