Case No. 28 : Falling Slowly

Dr. Alaric Virell is a name spoken with quiet respect in the hospital-brilliant, precise, and unapproachable. As a young nephrologist, he has built his life around discipline and duty, keeping his world strictly within the boundaries of medicine. To him, emotions are distractions, and connections beyond his patients are unnecessary.

Maria Ysabelle, a determined nursing student, enters that same world with a different kind of heart-hopeful, observant, and quietly strong. Assigned to her clinical duty, she finds herself under the supervision of the very doctor everyone warns her about.

Their path cross not through fate, but routine-sterile halls, patient charts, and long hours. To Dr. Verill, she is simply another student. But to Ysabelle, he is someone she cannot help but notice.

In a place where everything is measured, controlled, and clinical, this is not a story of instant connection-but of distance, silence, and something slowly waiting to unfold.