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"I call it surviving," Elara whispered.
The hospital on Ward 13 had been shuttered for eleven years, but the janitorial staff still heard the squeak of rubber-soled shoes at 3:00 AM.
The Nurse Ghost stepped forward. Her touch was cold as a stethoscope left on a metal counter. She placed two spectral fingers on Elara's wrist. "Tachycardia. Low magnesium. Loneliness, grade three." She sighed—a sound like a deflating blood pressure cuff. "I was programmed to heal. The hospital died, but the creature of my duty didn't. So I walk these halls, filing reports on the living who wander in."
"Mr. Hendricks," the ghost said, her voice a whisper of sterile gauze and distant rain. "You're running a fever of 102. And you haven't updated your advanced directive." Nurse Ghost Fuck - System Creature - Nurse- Cre...
She began to fade, not like smoke, but like a patient discharged—quietly, with one last look over her shoulder.
She didn't wail. She didn't float. She worked .
Elara took the key. It felt real.
"I'm caring for them. Different thing." The ghost pulled a key from nowhere—tarnished brass, warm despite her chill. "Basement, storage locker 7B. Behind the old dialysis machines. There's a kettle. There's a tin of chamomile tea, still sealed. And a paperback romance with a broken spine."
"You're diagnosing the living?"
"Oh, and Elara?" The ghost almost smiled. "The janitor who mops this floor at dawn? His name is Hendricks. Tell him I said his potassium looks excellent." "I call it surviving," Elara whispered
Elara, whose last name wasn't Hendricks, just blinked.
The Nurse Ghost tilted her head. "Ah. My error. System mismatch." She tapped her clipboard. "The creature in me sees patterns. The nurse in me sees… lifestyle." Her gaze softened, and for a moment she looked less like a haunting and more like a tired woman on a double shift. "You've been sleeping four hours a night. Eating protein bars for dinner. You call that living?"
The Nurse Ghost glided past the rusted gurneys and stopped at what used to be Station 4. She flipped a phantom page. Scratched a phantom note. Then she looked up—directly at Elara. Her touch was cold as a stethoscope left on a metal counter