“It wasnt so much that he was hungry his mouth felt dry, as if moths had nested in it, and there was an unpleasant feeling in the pit of his stomach it was simply that he had no place else to go. His large frame shook with chills, yet he felt so hot hed had to unzip the top half of his orange jumpsuit. But what bothered him most was his head. The pain had begun like a normal headache, and hed assumed it was just stress or maybe overwork. But then it had grown worse: a strange, irritating feeling... of fullness, as if his brain had grown too big for his skull. His vision blurred, and his fingers grew tingly and numb at the tips. So hed stopped work in the Electromechanical Machine Shop, where hed been repairing impact damage to the alpha Doodlebug, and went to his quarters. But that had been no better. Hed tossed and thrashed, soaking the pillow with a cold sweat and entangling his limbs in the sheets. Patroni, one of his bunkmates, had been there, big smelly feet up on the communal table, watching a cooking show on the Facilitys internal cable network.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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