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  • jack_spade

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    August 21, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    Receiving Al’s massage, John was relieved. The water had risen quite high now and by now he had considerable difficulties keeping the merc’s head above water.
    Taking a look at the map, he decided enough was enough.
    <<Al, I’m resurfacing. I’m close to Maple Valley General Hospital. I’ll leave her next to the ambulances. Tell those merc’s their friend is there – and will probably receive care as well as attention from KE if they don’t hurry.
    I’ll go down again and find some place to reconfigure my face a bit.>>

    John stopped at the next ladder. Enough was enough.
    Getting her out was a lot harder than getting her in, not helped at all by the downpour. Still, John managed to fix her at the ladder, so she wouldn’t drown, climbed up, removed the man hole cover and then proceeded to drag her up like a cat one of her young. One of the rungs made precarious sounds as the combined weight of them bore down on it, but finally they were up and out.
    John oriented himself. He had come up in an alley way across the street from the hospital. The rain smelled sour, but it washed at least some of the muck away. Still, crossing the street, John left some very muddy prints until the torrenting rain washed them away again. The hospital backyard was well lit, but deserted as no-one sane went out in this weather. The bio-monitor told John that his patient was cooling down dangerously. So he decided that speed was now more important than stealth. Get in quick, get out even quicker.

    The orderly looked up as the automatic glass doors glid open and a large shadow appeared from the relative dark outside. It resolved into two shadows as a man lowered a clearly very cybered up woman on the ground. Before he could get up, the man was walking back outside, muttering barely audible: “She’s your problem now.”

    John slipped between two parked EMT vans and ran back toward the sewer entrance. He hoped that he had managed to keep his face away from all cameras, but even so it wouldn’t matter in an hour or so.
    <<Package delivered.>>