Chapter Five-Haunted Days
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When Rinoa awoke, she couldn't move. Her eyes scanned the room she was in carefully in the hopes to see someone to help her. She was in a hospital room, and doctors were all around her, un-bandaging her back and changing her IV fluid. She nearly screamed in pain when the doctor's scalpel cut into the torn skin on her back.
"What's going on?" a voice asked.
"General Caraway, we're glad you're here," said a doctor. Daddy's here, Rinoa thought, He'll help me. The doctor went on, "I'm Dr. Henderson. Right now, however, we must ask you to leave the room."
"Yes, of course," Jake said, and left.
"Doctor,' said a nurse, "She's lost a massive amount of blood. She may be going into shock. Do you think now is the right time to remove the glass?"
"If we don't do it now, glass particles can go in further into her skin and might become permanent," Dr. Henderson answered.
When the doctor again cut out a part of glass, she twitched.
"Doctor, the patient is going into shock," the nurse said tersely.
Even as she said the words, Rinoa felt a pulling sensation around her middle, and the next thing she knew he was outside her body, looking down at the operation. Then, she saw a bright light in the distance, and heard someone calling to her. Rinoa headed towards the light and the voice. Finally, she arrived there. Everything was so beautiful. She saw her mother there, and her grandparents. They all hugged her. Julia whispered to her daughter, "Be good for your father," and then again, everything went dark.
Then she heard the doctor's voice saying, "Thank Hyne we got her back. She's been legally dead for three minutes. We don't need her father filing a lawsuit."
Another sharp pain cut through her and she blacked out.