Fractions (2008)
“They told her the Black Plan had been lost, the whole momentum and direction of the offensive thrown into disorder, and she nodded. They told her that the revolution was on the edge of defeat, that the regime could recover its balance and strike back at any moment, and she agreed.
She would not leave.
Van and the paramedics left, taking Moh’s body with them. Van had looked almost ashamed to ask, mumbling about ‘practical considerations’, fumbling with a pathetically irrelevant organ-donor card ...they’d found on him. She knew they wouldn’t give a part of this body to their worst enemies. They would dissect it with remotes in a sealed room, and when they’d learned what they could from its ravaged nerves they’d ash it.
They left the contents of his pockets: a few cards, a knife, a phone; and the helmet, the glades and the gun, tools of his trade. Van paused in the doorway and glanced from the gun to her, and back.
She shook her head fiercely. ‘I wouldn’t do it,’ she said.MoreLess
She would not leave.
Van and the paramedics left, taking Moh’s body with them. Van had looked almost ashamed to ask, mumbling about ‘practical considerations’, fumbling with a pathetically irrelevant organ-donor card ...they’d found on him. She knew they wouldn’t give a part of this body to their worst enemies. They would dissect it with remotes in a sealed room, and when they’d learned what they could from its ravaged nerves they’d ash it.
They left the contents of his pockets: a few cards, a knife, a phone; and the helmet, the glades and the gun, tools of his trade. Van paused in the doorway and glanced from the gun to her, and back.
She shook her head fiercely. ‘I wouldn’t do it,’ she said.MoreLess
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