By the time Lee, being pushed by Nurse Thornberry, followed by Sue and Kenji carrying the sleeping Sakura, gets to the hospital room, he can hardly hold his head up. More than once, the nurse had to hold him by the shoulder so he wouldn’t fall out of the hover-chair.

  “I will wait here and keep an eye on Lee,” says the nurse, stopping outside the room.

  Sue nods. “Thank you, Nurse; we won’t be long,” she says as they enter the room. Kenji places Sakura on the bed as he helps pack Lee’s belongings.

  Outside the room, Lee fights to stay awake and, gathering some of his energy, asks, “Nurse, how long?”

  The nurse, confused, bends down and asks, “How long what? Until we get to your new room? It won’t be long.”

  Lee shakes his head. “How long does it take to learn Latin?” Lee then looks at the nurse, dead-on in the eyes. “Latin as the mother language of old times, times before Europe.”

  The nurse's eyes go wide and she steps back, but before she can say anything, Lee’s head falls sideways and he is deeply asleep.

  The nurse shakes her head as she thinks, “What are you, child? Never in my two and half thousand years have I found someone like you!” She then grabs a pillow from a cart nearby and places it under Lee’s head; then she notices that a small bit of blood is coming from Lee’s nose. She wipes it with her thumb and smells it, then, tempted, licks it; that is when she starts to gag and cough. Holding her forearm to her mouth, she thinks, looking at Lee in a panic, “How can his blood be so pure? I haven’t felt anything like this in hundreds of years; good thing it was only a drop.”

  “Is everything alright, Nurse?” says Kenji, holding Sakura once more as they exit the room. The nurse only nods with a smile, then steps away to show that Lee has fallen asleep.

  On the next day, Lee is woken up by Sue. “Morning, sleepyhead,” she says as Lee surveys the room; next to his bed is a double bed, and on the other side of that bed is another one where Sakura is still asleep; Kenji is nowhere to be found.

  “Morning, Mom,” says Lee, scratching his eyes.

  Sue smiles and leans in and kisses Lee’s forehead. “Try not to fall asleep again; I’m going to wake up your sister.”

  Lee nods, then, as his head starts to drop to his chest, he lifts it and shakes it hard to wake himself up. As he steps out of the bed, he feels his legs tremble.

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  “Be careful, Lee. You could still be tired from yesterday; the doctors said for you and your sister to take it easy today,” says Kenji, having just stepped back into the room.

  Lee smiles at his dad; then he feels something stir inside himself, not physical but like a tug at his subconscious. Lee decides to let his body go on autopilot; he finds himself closing his eyes, then turning his neck from one side to the other, relieving the neck muscle tension; then he rotates his shoulders twice, then finally moves them backwards, making his chest expand. Finally, he takes in a deep breath and holds it, feeling his muscles regain strength and power. Then, as he opens his eyes, he exhales, then he finds Nurse Thornberry looking straight at him, shock written all over her face, and she lets out a gasp.

  Hearing the nurse’s gasp, Sue turns around. “Hello, Nurse; is everything alright?”

  The nurse looks at Lee for another second, then she smiles as she looks at his parents. “Yes, I was just checking before finishing my shift. Will you four have breakfast here or at the canteen?”

  “If they are free to go home, we might have it at the canteen then go home once we are finished,” says Kenji. “If that is okay.”

  The nurse nods; as Lee gets to the toilet, he finds a sink and mirror specially built for children’s height. In the mirror, he sees himself, but his eyes are an intense blue and glowing, almost like they have an inner light.

  “By your reaction, you didn’t know your eyes could do that, did you?” Lee hears someone say; he turns around to find the nurse by the ajar door, head lowered as if looking at the phone in her hand, but Lee sees that she is actually looking at him from the corner of her eyes.

  Before Lee replies, he notices that the nurse never spoke in Japanese, so with a smile, he says, “There is a lot about myself that I don’t know, or how I know.”

  The nurse, this time, turns her head a bit sideways to look at him. “Is the fact that you speak and understand Latin one of those things?” she asks in Latin, as Lee spoke back to her in it. “Do your parents know about these abilities of yours?” she asks, casting a glance at the Watsons.

  Lee shakes his head. “I don’t know if they know, but the Watsons—I don’t believe they know,” Lee says in Latin before splashing some water on his face.

  From the mirror's reflection, Lee notices that the nurse is about to say something but holds back and lifts her head.

  Then Lee hears a knock on the door. “Lee, are you alright in there, kid?” asks Kenji in Japanese.

  “Yes, Dad, just washing my face to wake up; I’ll be out in a bit,” says Lee, checking his reflection; his eyes are back to their original dark-blue, almost black colour.

  As they are having breakfast, Nurse Fionna and Raxen find them in the canteen and give their farewells as they finish their shift.

  After breakfast, Lee gets in the car with Sakura on the back seat, Kenji behind the steering wheel and Sue in the front passenger seat. As they get on the road heading home, by instinct, Lee reaches into the pocket of the seat in front of himself and removes a gaming console. Sakura gets her console from the little bag she has, and they start playing their games until they get home.

  Meanwhile, in the hospital, Doctor Jaborian is at his desk, finishing up after a long shift sorting paperwork and reports, also planning the re-training of the medical staff on how to set up the cerebral cortex mapping exam, when his door gets brutally kicked in.