Chapter 99 Leroy

• A somber quiet hung like a weighted blanket over the Critical Care Unit at Emory St. Joseph's Hospital. The main sounds were equipment beeps and chirps while and a heavy antiseptic smell permeated the air. Thankfully, that day only a couple of the patients were terminal - an elderly gentleman with a failing heart, and a young Hispanic man who had been severely beaten.
• Silent and invisible to the nurses present, eleven men appeared around Tanner Rawlins's bed. Brad broadcast a Compulsion for anyone to stay away from his bed. Tanner looked so thin and worn; his skin was nearly translucent and covered with age spots. The three years since they had seen him had not been kind to his body. His heart was failing, and their Understanding told them he had less than an hour before he would draw his last breath. In the Spiritual Realm, the men lit up like a star, their Single Soul shining upon the father of their friend, Greg. Standing with him in his last hour, they gave Mr. Rawlins Soul comfort.
• Hospitals were difficult for Lane and Bryan in particular. With their Avatars of Healing and Life, hospitals were more often a place of death and suffering, and their Brothers held them tighter, shielding them from everything else happening.