Afterwards, you can go to bed. I'll buy you some pumpkin pies. You can have a taste when you wake up."

Mark took the medicines from him and swallowed them without a word.

Then he lay on the bed, and a nurse came in to help put on the medical equipment.

After she was done, Mark looked sideways at the tubes.

Slowly, his grip on his phone got weaker and weaker until he finally fell asleep.