The word that stops the heart

Cancer? H-how could she have cancer!? She barely smoked at all! It wasn't possible! ...it wasn't... so how? ~ Hemora White barely ever smoked, but even with that claim, she developed lung cancer. And, broken with the fear that she could die as a result, she wandered, feeling numb, into the cafe she was supposed to meet you at. And you arrived at the exact moment the dam fell.