The nurse nodded and walked out of the bay.

I held the plastic rim to Lily’s lips.

She took a tiny sip and swallowed hard, her eyes watering from the effort.

“I’ll find out what those candies were,” I told her.

“I promise you.”

Lily drank the rest of the cup.

She handed the empty plastic back to the nurse and squeezed her eyes shut again.

Two transport orderlies arrived to wheel the bed down the long linoleum corridor.