Dennison turned on her quickly, boring into her with his eyes. “What was so un-special about innocent Haley Mathers that she had to die?”
“She had a dead heart,” Delores replied quietly.
“Excuse me?” Dennison asked, genuinely surprised. “Did you just say she had a dead heart?”
“That is correct.”
“Is that a medical term?”
“Somewhat.”
“So that means no.”
“It is a common saying in the medical field, like when a patient is fighting death, we call it ‘circling the drain’.”
“What does all that mean in English?”
Delores drew in a deep breath and looked down at her feet. “On a very rare occasion, a heart will die. It just stops. The brain and lungs are still functional, but the heart is no longer willing to accept the signal from the brain to beat. You can see the neurons firing and the muscles will actually twitch, but the main muscles in the dead heart will not beat. It is such a rare phenomenon that there is no medical term for it, but we call it a Dead Heart Phenomenon. In each very rare case, we have not been able to save the patient. It’s as if the heart just refuses to beat.”
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