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SISTER
(1) Water... water.

Torm puts down a vial and quickly fetches her sister water and rushes to her bedside.

TORM
(2) Here it is, here.

Torm gently helps her sister sit up and drink. Her sister takes a small sip and falls back to her pillow.

SISTER
(3) Will this never end?

TORM
(4) Just rest. It will be over soon.

Torm puts down the water and adjusts her sister's vapor machine.

SISTER
(5) I'm so afraid, Torm. I don't want to die.

TORM
(6) Fear is good: it means your mind is working properly .

SISTER
(7)Please, get this out of me.

TORM
(8) I am, little sis, we just need a little more time.

Torm checks a few spots on her sister's body for black veins.

SISTER
(9) What if the mixtures stop working? What if they start having the opposite effects and I start getting worse again?

TORM
(10) Just a few weeks ago you couldn't even talk. And now I see the black veins growing smaller. You have nothing at all to worry about.

Torm takes out a small dripper and a glass plate.

TORM
(11) Okay, a few dream samples.

Torm collects a few of her sister's tears and drops them onto the glass plate.

TORM
(12) Your dreams are getting more colorful.

SISTER
(13) The dreams are the only thing good about the fever.

TORM
(14) I've read that some people give themselves Shadow Fever just to have the dreams.

SISTER
(15) I CAN ONLY REMEBER PARTS OF THEM.

Torm puts a dry white mixture into the vapor machine that is at the side of her sister's bed. Torm adjusts a few parts of the machine and soon it releases vapors.

TORM
(16) I will show them to you when you are better. Now get some more sleep so I can go back to work.

Torm tucks her sister in and returns to her work.
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