Emma usually tried to steer away from telling patients and families that sick people would be alright unless she knew it for a fact, but she couldn't express how good it felt to hear it from Veronica. "Thank you," she said, moving in to hug the other woman before she went to make her phone call.
To Nikkie she said, "You said you're a friend of Lena's? Have you spent much time with my son?" She didn't say it judgementally, of course. Mostly she was going to try anything to be distracted from the still form in the bed in front of her.