PART 2 OF 20
THE APPOINTMENT
Mavenlus DeskFICTION
The children's emergency department smelled like hand sanitiser and burnt coffee.
By seven that evening Silas was asleep against Nora's chest under a thin cotton blanket with a cannula taped to the back of his hand.
The fever had frightened us both.
The paediatric registrar thought it was viral.
He was also dehydrated.
That word did something to me I had trouble controlling in a public corridor.