Chapter 45

ISABELLA'S POV

I could still hear the loud breathing of my colleagues; they appeared to be louder now than normal.

Judge Jonathan was slipping away from us, and we were running out of options, out of time.

I dimmed my eyes, remembering the words of my favorite professor in my third year, Professor Raghav. He was Indian.

He always had a way of seeing beyond the immediate problem—a way of finding the thread that connected everything.

As I struggled to keep my composure, one of his popular quotes during our ward rounds hit me with a force triggering the light of insight.

"When you’ve eliminated everything you can see, start looking for the inviscible. Because danger is always a friend of the shadows."

Those words struck me with new clarity. We were focused on what we could measure—what was right in front of us.

But what if the real problem was something we hadn’t even considered?

Something squatting in the background, eating up the patient in a way that wasn’t immediately obvious?

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