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. Pile the
bed and everything else against the outer door;
they'll be shooting or breaking it down or both." She sat down on the floor
with her back toward me and paid no attention to anyone. But everyone jumped to
carry out her orders.
"Everyone" included Gretchen, Xia, Choy-Mu, Father Schultz, and Reb Ezra. I
did not have time to be astonished, especially as Xia with Gretchen's help moved
me into the refresher, put me on the floor, and resumed taking my pants off.
What did astonish me was to find that my good leg, the one with a meat-and-bone
foot on it, was bleeding heavily. I noticed it first from seeing that Gretchen
had big blood stains on the left shoulder of her white coverall. Then I saw
where the blood was coming from, whereupon that leg started to hurt.
I don't like blood, especially mine. So I turned my face away and looked
out the 'fresher door. Hazel was still sitting on the floor and had taken
something out of her handbag that seemed to be bigger than the handbag. She was
talking into it:
'Tee Aitch Queue! Major Lipschitz calling Tee Aitch Queue! Answer roe. God
damn it! Wake up! Mayday, may day! Hey, Rube!"
XX
"If anyone doubts my veracity, I can only say that I pity his lack of
faith."
BARON MUNCHAUSEN 1737-1794
Xia added, "Gretchen, hand me a clean towel. We'll make do just with a
pressure pack until later
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