Time passed and the situation didn't get better on Noah's end.
Twenty-three dead now. The count had climbed steadily over the past hour, each death following the same pattern. Yellow-green luminescence intensifying over twenty minutes, then hemorrhaging, then nothing. Medical staff pulled sheets over bodies and moved to the next patient because standing still meant watching someone else die.
Noah stood near the center of the triage area, his hands glowing faintly with void energy as he maintained Entropy Touch on a patient whose veins were beginning to brighten. The decay spread slowly across the man's skin, just enough to disrupt the cellular acceleration without causing permanent damage. It was buying maybe ten minutes before the process reasserted itself.
Ten minutes wasn't enough.
