Good evening. You are listening to Leave the Porch Light Off, and I am Marisol Vance. Every week I tell you one complete story, so if this is your first, you have not missed anything, and if it is your fiftieth, welcome back to the dark. Tonight's story is called The Second Heartbeat, and it comes from somewhere personal, because for six years I worked nights on wards that were very quiet. Renee is a night nurse on a cardiac ward half closed for renovation. At two in the morning, on the monitor for bed four, she sees a second rhythm under her patient's: slower, steadier, and not his. A small content note: a medical setting and some distress, nothing gory. Turn the light off. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.