Val sat on the bench outside Stephanie's room. His eyes were empty because Mark kept going in and out every time Stephanie had been injected with the vaccine and showed signs of shock. Val took pity on them. After everything Stephanie and Mark had done so much for the world, more was still taken from them, more for the people who didn't even know them.
How had it turned out to be like this? Val didn't know which point of his life that had foreshadowed the sacrifice his friends would have made. He only remembered back then, the first day he had met Stephanie.
