Chapter 152

The emergency medical protocols that followed our breakthrough moved with the kind of coordinated precision that only life-or-death situations could inspire. Within seventy-two hours of our final stability confirmation, we had converted our research laboratory into a pharmaceutical production facility, every available surface dedicated to synthesizing the quantities of treatment needed to address the crisis affecting hundreds of patients across multiple states. The werewolf medical board had granted us unprecedented emergency authorization, cutting through regulatory procedures that would normally take months in recognition that every day of delay meant more patients potentially suffering irreversible neurological damage. Dr. Harrison coordinated with hospital networks throughout the region, establishing distribution protocols that would ensure our treatment reached the most critical cases first. I stood in the sterile preparation room of the hospital where my father lay unconscious, m