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"No, not this one," the first voice returned I knew that voice It was as sweet as it had been before, only this tibie’s hands cah She can handle it"

So smelled horrible Acidic and rotten all at once My eyes flew open

Dr Begbie was kneeling besidebeneath ed to a young woman She had dark brown hair and pale skin, but that was all that was re her, she stripped her blue scrubs off and threw thebie

I didn’t knohere ere The room was small, filled with shelves of bottles and boxes, and I couldn’t sbie had used to wakes were ready or not "Coot to hurry"

My body felt heavy, cracking at all my joints But I did as I was told, and pulled the scrubs over , the other wobie wrapped theether with thick silver duct tape That finished, the doctor ether

"You’rethem in Harvey Make sure you take Route two-fifteen"

"I know, I know," Dr Begbie said as she chewed off another piece of tape and placed it over the wo?" I asked My throat was scratchy, and the skin around my mouth seemed to crack as I spoke The doctor pulledit up into a messy bun that she secured with a rubber band The other wos were dropped over icalonce we’re out, but we can’t waste ti rounds in twenty , understand? Play along"

I nodded and let her push me outside of the dark rooain,me, but the doctor took it all in stride She looped one of ht

"We’re ," she muttered "Return the cameras to their nor to old swan pin

"Not a word," she re hallway We wereso fast that we rustled the white curtains of the examination stalls as we passed them The PSFs were black blurs as they stepped out of our way

"Sorry, sorry!" Dr Begbie called after us "I’ve got to get this one ho underso badly that I didn’t realize ere heading outside until I heard the beep of the doctor’s card passing through the lock swipe and felt the first drops of cool rain hit hts on at all hours of the night; the lights stood like giants across the caarass, and the back of h school’s teas

It was a short walk and stu lot I actually wasn’t sure if I was hallucinating or not--ht went in and out of focus, but it was iravel and the voice that yelled, "Everything okay over there?"