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“AAAAAH!” screamed Ade, as he fell from the roof of his house. It was a large house, two stories high, in fact. Ade had moved into this house when he was a child and had since become a grandfather to ten children. He, being an active man, was unclogging the rain gutter on the roof when he tripped and fell. His sons, who had seen him fall, rushed to him to discover that his leg was drenched in blood. Ade was then swiftly escorted to the nearby hospital.

“Are we there?” groaned Ade.

“Almost,” said his eldest son.

He looked down on his father’s wound while they travelled in the ambulance. A two-minute drive brought them to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital.

Ade was taken into the ICU at a moment’s notice, with the only delay being due to the hospital’s tight security. Ade’s unfortunate leg was quickly bandaged and all sorts of blood tests were being conducted on him at once, until finally, an x-ray was conducted on the leg, revealing a fractured femur and the need for a month-long stay in the hospital. Though Ade resisted it at first, he later accepted that he was going to have to stay in the hospital for a long time. He eventually got used to it and his sons visited him less frequently after a while.

He was just getting comfortable in the environment when he was told that he was being transferred to another hospital a few days later in order to conduct a few more tests. At the eve of his departure, a nurse came into his room, asking him if he needed anything before going to sleep. Ade asked her for a cup of tea. The nurse then looked out of the ward for just a moment to get a cup of hot tea she had already prepared for him. She turned around to give it to Ade but instead saw his clothes, neatly folded, with a bloody rock on top of it. The nurse, half confused, half scared to death, ran to hospital management and reported the incident to them. The hospital immediately contacted Ade’s family and his eldest son is the first one to show up on the scene.

“What happened here,” he shouted, unable to control his anger.

“Sir, the nurse turned around for a second and then he was gone,” said a random doctor.

“That is NOT POSSIBLE,” he yelled.