The Message.

          “Mr. Stephens? It’s time for your medication now.”

          “Is he even awake?”

          “Mm hmm. He woke up a few hours ago. He’s doing a little better, but not much. I’m a little worried. By the way, the family is coming in later for a visit. They’ll be glad to see his face is healing and he’s actually recognizable now. But he keeps trying to say something and no matter how hard I try, I just can’t understand him well enough to decipher it. I catch an ‘m’ sound, but that’s all.”

“Really? I wonder what he could be saying. Any ideas?”

“Not a single one. I can’t think of anything he could be trying to say. But I believe that within the next week or two, we should know. Maybe his daughters can help us figure it out. I see a strong connection between him and the younger one. Gosh, is she beautiful.”

“The older one, too. He’s fortunate to have such gorgeous children. Any children at all.” The nurse sighed the last sentence with a silent, rippling tear.

“Myrtle, it isn’t so bad. And that wasn’t your fault. You didn’t close the elevator door on yourself. It was that awful woman of John’s, not you. You must let go. It was so long ago, dear. You couldn’t have done a thing to help it.”

Myrtle only sucked in a sharp, harsh breath. After a moment of dead silence aside from the beeping of machines, she spoke, her tone soft. “Okay.”

“T… W… M… I… S… M…”

“Mr. Stephens, we need you to concentrate. What are you trying to say, Mr. Stephens?”

“I-it…” Horribly muffled, but his first word since the accident. “It… Wa… Was…” Two words. Two words and an attempt at a third. Then, nothing but a raging fit of violent retching and coughing.

“It was? What was what?”

“Come on, we shouldn’t strain him. Let’s let him rest and then maybe tomorrow we can get it out of him. Let’s go before we get ourselves into trouble.”

“Alright. Should we report this?”

“No! No, let’s just let it be so that they don’t bother him until we understand his message. Come on, let’s go now.”

“Okay, fine.”

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