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Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser, who had never used a remote control until she was twenty-seven and had once tried to light a cigarette with a TV’s power button, now stared at the glowing rectangle of her laptop. It was 2024. She was not in the Jacobite rising. She was in a damp flat in Glasgow, the rain hammering against the window like the drums at Culloden.

“Sassenach,” the laptop speakers crackled. The H.264 codec clipped the high end of his voice, turning the Gaelic softness into something digital and thin. outlander s02e06 720p web h264

On screen, Jamie’s face was the color of old milk. Sweat filmed his brow. The H.264 compression handled the shadows poorly—blocky artifacts gathered in the hollows of his cheeks—but it could not hide the terror in her own eyes. She watched Claire (the actress, not herself) slice open Jamie’s leg. Watched the pus and the 720p-pixelated blood. Watched her own hands, steady on screen, shake in memory. Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser, who had never used

Her finger hovered over the trackpad. Clicking it felt like stepping through the stones again. She was in a damp flat in Glasgow,

She closed the laptop.

She clicked.

“That was L’Hôpital des Anges,” she whispered. “The angel’s hospital. It smelled of boiled cabbage and dying kings.”