I went to surprise my husband at the hospital with his lunch. His colleague looked at me with tears in his eyes and said: “He hasn’t told you anything, has he?”

have bothered.

She glanced at the nurse next to her.

Neither of them said anything, and neither of them looked at me. They looked at each other.

My smile went.

I said: has something happened to him? Where is he?

Still nothing.

And I was starting to get properly angry at how strangely they were behaving when I saw his colleague Cassian coming down the corridor towards me.

His face was completely white.

I said, brightly, because I still had no idea: oh, thank goodness. Can you tell me where Soren is?

He stopped