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First, Tara looked bewildered, and then she offered a quiet, deeply relieved smile. "It's you?"

Her voice was barely a whisper, incredibly raspy and frail, but John caught the two words with razor-sharp clarity.

Expecting her to say more, John watched as Tara slowly drifted off again, her eyelids fluttering shut as her head lolled slightly to the side.

Reaching out to check