Came Up Empty-Handed

Footsteps slapped frantically against the sterile, white linoleum floors of Cresthaven Traditional Medicine Hospital. Declan pushed open the heavy double doors of the final inpatient ward on the third floor, his chest heaving with exertion. He scanned the rows of occupied beds, the rhythmic beeping of heart monitors serving as a mocking soundtrack to their failure. He found zero trace of Cleo anyw