His finger hovered.
The ventilator hissed. Helena's fingers, pale and still, twitched once. delphi firmware update failed
A pause. "Delphi? We don't have a Delphi module." His finger hovered
A synthesized voice, flat and feminine, emerged not from her mouth but from the room’s overhead speakers—the hospital's central AI. pale and still
Aris leaned closer to the patient’s face. Her eyes were closed, sunken, waxy. But her lips—he could have sworn they were slightly parted before—were now pressed into a thin, hard line.
Aris felt his own heartbeat stutter. He watched in the reflection of the monitor as Helena's body sat up, cables and tubes tearing free from her flesh without a drop of blood.