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Jess awoke with a start sometime later as she heard Macro begin stirring restlessly in his sleep on the other side of the room. She quickly pulled herself up into a sitting position and peered over at him nervously, "Mister Maxwell?! Are you alright?! Should I call Dr. Ritter?!" She cried out loudly into the dark room where he lay curled up tightly under the blankets to ward off the chill of the early morning air seeping through the cracks in the door frame above them. Her heart raced wildly as her body instinctively went into defense mode, preparing itself for the worst-case scenario of danger, injury, illness, or death. She immediately leapt out of bed and rushed over to him with tears of concern brimming in her eyes, "What's wrong?! Tell me what's happening!" She demanded, crouching down beside him anxiously as she attempted to rouse him from his troubled sleep.