4338.206 · July 25, 2018 AD
Someone Willing to Follow
Bixbus had a name. It had tents, a river, a fire pit. It had two men sharing a blanket and a third crossing between worlds to keep them alive. What it didn't have was anyone who knew how to treat a wound that was slowly killing one of them. On 25 July, a Guardian walked into a medical practice looking for help. He walked out with something better—someone willing to follow.
Jamie Greyson was dying. The wound in his chest had turned septic, and nothing Luke had brought through the Portal was enough to stop the infection spreading. He needed a doctor—not supplies, not instructions, but hands that knew what they were doing.
Dr Glenda De Bruyn had spent her life preparing for something she only half believed was real. Her father Gebhardt had spoken of other worlds, of doorways, of a place called Clivilius. She had inherited his connections to the Fox Order, his knowledge of secrets kept in shadows, and—though she hadn't known it until the wall of her examination room dissolved into light—his path.
The choice was made in minutes. A warning from Pierre. A Portal opened. A threshold crossed.
Bixbus gained its first physician. Everything that followed would be shaped by her arrival.
