Lake:

The doctor let us be, and I settled back into the bench with Jojo. She sat close to me, and even if the doctor said Lucian was fine, I could see her continuously tap her right foot on the ground. I couldn't blame her, she was his mother and no one could understand the might of a mother's love, or a mother's worry.

A second doctor - this time a male one - arrived to cross examine the child, just to make sure that Lucian was ready to come home. Thirty minutes had passed ...