Melomiri

The Last Serum

Language: en

The girl was dying from a snakebite. As the village’s only doctor, I let the last vial of antivenom fall and shatter. I watched calmly as her life faded. Her family knelt outside, begging. My kind apprentice pleaded with me. My gentle husband screamed I was a monster who should have been bitten. I held up a shard of the broken vial. “I’m sorry. The last vial was dropped. Get her to the city hospital. Now.” In my past life, I’d treated her carefully. I had the right antivenom, cleaned the wound for hours, and saved her. But she died moments after. Then the door burst open. A mob of…

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