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The Proctor paused. That was not part of the exam.

A bed materialized in the center of the dais. On it lay a figure made of fog and bone and forgotten lullabies. He had no face — only the shape of where a face should be.

The Proctor gestured to the fog-and-bone figure. Already, color was returning to his cheeks. A faint heartbeat thrummed through the Hall. medcel revalida

Lirael’s chest tightened. Around her, the ghostly amphitheater filled with the shimmering forms of previous graduates — thousands of celestial physicians who had passed this test. They watched in cold, perfect judgment.

She looked up, stunned.

“I do not dispute doctrine,” Lirael said, bowing her head. “But doctrine was written after the Great Schism. This patient— who is he? ”

“Candidate Lirael,” intoned the Proctor, a being of seven overlapping faces and no discernible pulse. “Your final scenario. A patient has arrived at the Triage of Last Resort. He presents with the following symptoms: a hollow where his hope should be, a fracture in his causal timeline, and a persistent, low-grade infection of silence. What is your primary action?” The Proctor paused

And after a long while, she heard it: a single, broken note, like a music box crushed under a falling temple.

Lirael’s hands, steady on a thousand battlefields, trembled. This was a trick. The Revalida always began with a trick. On it lay a figure made of fog

“The Revalida isn’t testing my knowledge,” Lirael said, tears forming — tears of starlight, the rarest kind. “It’s testing my courage. This patient is the first being ever turned away from Celestial Triage. The one the system failed. The one we all pretended didn’t exist. His silence is our guilt.”