"Is he up yet?" Andrei asked, standing outside the hospital doors.
"Nah." Silvia replied with a sigh, biting into a chocolate bar. "I'm just more concerned about how we're gonna break it to him."
"I mean, he probably won't be strong enough to hurt us if he just woke up, right?"
"Well yeah, but I still don't wanna be the one to tell him his girlfriend died."
"What about Wendy?"
"It's been five hours and she's still crying." Silvia groaned, looking at the bright light above them. "I thought she'd dehydrate by this point, or something."
Just as she finished her sentence, two smilers walked out of Eric's hospital room.
"He's awaaake." The first one said, lurching forward as he did, before scurrying into the long hallway.
"Well, shit." Silvia sighed. "Look, I'm not delaying this any longer. I'm telling him."
