Murder Team
“Speaking was out of the question.
That didn’t stop his doctors – Jack and Ed – talking to him. He’d learned that it was their bedside manner, and he understood why: keep talking to the patient to keep his mind active. Because a patient with an active mind heals faster and better than one dwelling on his injuries. Spud had spent a lot of time trying to place their accents. Scandinavian, he reckoned. Possibly Norwegian. They certainly spoke very good English. Wherever they came from, they were definitely aid workers of some kind. Probably Red Cross. Spud didn’t know how long he’d been in their care – a few days, he reckoned – but he did know that barely a waking moment had passed without one or other of them talking to him, and sometimes both if they happened to be there together.
‘You’re looking good, buddy,’ said Jack.
Yeah, Spud thought in the depths of his mind. Looking like this I’ll be fighting them off with a shitty stick.
‘We might even get you off that drip tomorrow.
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