Volume 1, No. 1
Banquet / Tyrras ... 40
turned away and looked
into the darkness. "Maybe the universe is unfolding as it should,"
Bellamy thought.
"The ambulance!" Morozin
called out, and stood up. The white van with a large red cross on the
sides pulled up. Two attendants and a woman doctor got out. The men carried
a stretcher, and the doctor brought out her bag.
"I see that it is you
who is Japanese," she said in English as she knelt beside Harioto. He
only nodded. She took out her stethoscope, listened to his heart, then
she lifted the bloodsoaked shirt. "You lost blood," she said. "Don't
vorry." She stood up and made way for the attendants who lifted Harioto
from the table top and transferred him to the stretcher. "He vill be okay,"
she said to the group that gathered around. Tanaka was hovering close
by as the attendants and slid Harioto into the ambulance, the doctor looked
at Bondarenko's stump from him index finger and at his face. Then she
led him