—Exsanguinated. I love that word.
—You know, “bleeding out” is a perfectly acceptable cause of death.
—Huh. That’s a weird reason for a medical rule out.
—What’s that?
—“Fungal Infection.”
—… Um.
—I know!
—I don’t even want to think about where the infection was.
—It’s like a Stephen King novel.
—Or what it smelled like.
—Could you imagine? Cracking open a chest cavity and finding black oozing fungus?
—I shouldn’t have asked.