Cloud said:
Cloud returns to the girl's bedside, looking the spirit in the eyes. She tries to connect to the girl telepathically. "Hi there. Can you hear me? My name is Cloud."
The girl did not look up as Cloud approached the chair. She looked up at Cloud with wide eyes, fearful as she tried to communicate telepathically. When Cloud finished speaking, the girl burst into tears. “Stay away! Tell him to leave me alone…”
It was then that a nurse approached Cloud. “Hon, you’re not allowed over here. Leave that poor girl alone.” Without waiting for Cloud’s reply, she began to draw the curtain around the bed.
Marcus said:
"Heh, heh, yeah," Marcus replied, punching him with no strength on the shoulder. "What 're you doing here, man?"
“Scholarship,” Jake replied simply, offering a wide grin. “You too?”
Sorting through unpleasant memories, Marcus was soon able to come up with an answer. Jake had been a sophomore, one of the ones who ‘encouraged’ the younger members of the team to participate in the hazing. Most of the time, he seemed like a nice enough guy, but Marcus had noticed that he had a mean streak. However, Marcus was unsure if Jake had participated in planning the hazing activities.
Hoshiko said:
"That's kind of an impressive piece of equipment to have at a school, isn't it? And expensive! How many patients had to visit the infirmary last and this year?" Hoshiko asks, still poking about the equipment with extreme interest.
Dr. Garcia paused, thinking. “It is difficult to say exactly how many,” he replied at last. “As far as the cost of equipment is concerned, we have a number of ways of obtaining inexpensive equipment. For example,” he moved over to a nearby table and picked up a device, handing it to Hoshiko. “This was the result of a join effort between Dr. Richards and myself. It is a scanner that compares the known physiology of a number of alien races with that of a patient. It helps us to discover injury in patients whose anatomy is alien to that of human anatomy.”
