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The sharp pounding on my door jolted me awake. I blinked in the darkness, my heart already racing before I'd even registered what was happening. "Healer! Healer Keyla!" Gamma Ryan's voice carried through the wood, urgent and clipped. "Alpha commands your immediate presence at the hospital." I fumbled for my glasses, my fingers trembling slightly as I pulled on the robe hanging by my bed. The digital clock read 2:17 AM. No emergency call ever came at this hour unless something was terribly wrong. "I'm coming," I called, quickly braiding my hair as I rushed to the door. Gamma Ryan's face was grim in the hallway light. "It's Kara," he said, not meeting my eyes.