Judgment Plague (2014)
“Kazuko in the Cerberus medical bay as soon as her team returned to the redoubt. “How is he?” she asked breathlessly.
“I sedated him two hours ago,” Kazuko explained as DeFore peered through the observation window into the room where Grant was recuperating. He lay asleep in the lone bed in the room, with Shizuka sitting by his side, a surgical mask cinched over her mouth and nose. “Life signs are holding steady, breathing’s good, some rattling in his chest from mucus, but otherwise he’s hold...ing in there.”
DeFore looked relieved. “Thank you,” she said. “I assume Shizuka’s been here the whole time?”
Kazuko nodded. “She was quite insistent.”
* * * SEDATED, GRANT SLEPT a restless sleep, sweat beading on his brow.
Shizuka sat with him in the private room, watching him with concern. She was like a mother lioness with cubs, protecting them, ready to pounce on anything that came too close.MoreLess
“I sedated him two hours ago,” Kazuko explained as DeFore peered through the observation window into the room where Grant was recuperating. He lay asleep in the lone bed in the room, with Shizuka sitting by his side, a surgical mask cinched over her mouth and nose. “Life signs are holding steady, breathing’s good, some rattling in his chest from mucus, but otherwise he’s hold...ing in there.”
DeFore looked relieved. “Thank you,” she said. “I assume Shizuka’s been here the whole time?”
Kazuko nodded. “She was quite insistent.”
* * * SEDATED, GRANT SLEPT a restless sleep, sweat beading on his brow.
Shizuka sat with him in the private room, watching him with concern. She was like a mother lioness with cubs, protecting them, ready to pounce on anything that came too close.MoreLess
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