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." Not a
refresher appropriate to a four-seater spaceplane, nothing at all like ours in
the Raffles; this room was an antique. Have you ever seen wallpaper decorated
with fairies and gnomes? Indeed, have you ever seen wallpaper? How about a giant
iron tub on claw feet? Or a water closet with a wooden lid and an overhead tank?
The whole room was straight out of a museum of cultural anthropology ... yet
everything was bright and new and shiny.
I wondered just how much blood I had lost.
"Thanks, Gwen, but I don't think I need it. Gretchen, do you want to float
in water?"
"I don't want to move!"
"It won't be long," Hazel assured them. "Gay shifted twice to avoid
shrapnel, or we would be down now. Richard, how are you feeling?"
"I'll make it." "0f course you will, darling. I feel the weight myself from
a year in Golden Rule. But not much as I exercised at one gee every day. Dear
one, how badly are you wounded?" "I don't know."
"Xia?" "Lots of bleeding and some muscle damage. Twenty or twenty-five
centimeters and fairly deep. I don't think bone was hit. We put a tight pressure
pack on it. If this ship is equipped for it, I want to do a better job and give
him a broad-spectrum shot, too."
"You've done a fine job. We'll be landing soon and then there will be
professional help and equipment." "All right. I don't feel too lively, I admit
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