Mrs. Yates Sr. leaned on her cane and stood up. “Whether or not to reopen Veritas Medical… I need to think about it.”
Rosalind chuckled softly. “There’s no need to rush, Grandma. It’s just that the more good doctors there are, the fewer bad ones can cause harm. Don’t you think?”
Mrs. Yates Sr. paused. “You’re right. I’ve lived a long life, and yet you see things more clearly than I do, Rosalind.”
Rosalind didn’t press the matter, giving the old woman time to wrestle with her thoughts.
After all, for a doctor who truly wanted to save lives, losing a patient was an incredibly difficult hurdle to overcome.
Galeno knew exactly what Rosalind was planning. Late that night, after his grandmother had gone to sleep…
He took his pile of what looked like scrap metal and, with a few clicks and clacks, assembled it into a small laptop.
The German shepherd in the yard started barking, but one look from Galeno silenced it immediately.
The dog stretched its front paws out, its body curled into a trembling ball.
Their next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zade, had seen Galeno with the device before and assumed it was a toy.
In reality, after Rosalind’s training, Galeno could assemble it into a laptop or a drone; it just depended on the configuration and the parts he used.
Rosalind watched as he finally located their target, her eyebrows raising. “The people who framed Grandma back then… they’re not in Sol, but in Prax?”
Galeno nodded firmly.
Standing under a tree, Rosalind idly rolled a few blossoms between her fingers, her eyes deep with thought.
“Prax… it’s been a long time since I’ve been back.”
She flicked the blossoms into her teacup, her expression serene. “No rush. Let’s wait for Grandma to reopen Veritas Medical first.”

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