Apocalypse Array by Lyda Morehouse

Author:Lyda Morehouse
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy Fiction, Space Opera, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9780451459817
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2004-01-01T17:00:00+00:00

KFAR SHAUL TO RECEIVE MORNINGSTAR MONEY

Agnostic Press (December 2095)

Jerusalem, Israel—Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, Jerusalem’s state mental hospital, is slated to be the newest recipient of monies from the Morningstar Foundation. The gift of 2.1 million credits (Christendom) will be earmarked for the hospital’s psychiatric unit, sometimes known as the

“messiah ward” due to the large number of patients diagnosed with the Jerusalem. Syndrome. Hundreds of visitors from all over the world are currently housed at Kfar Shaul, as it is the main hospital for tourists to Jerusalem. Sixty percent of the patients in the “messiah ward” are Jews, 32 percent are Christian.

Administrators at the hospital were pleased with the news, announced today through Monsignor Emmaline McNaughton’s headquarters. “Thanks to all our John the Baptists we get a lot of press,” said hospital administrator Trudi Burke. “But usually it’s tongue-in-cheek articles quoting the various messiahs we have staying here. It’s nice to see people taking our work seriously.”

Sammael Morningstar made a public statement regarding this gift, saying that he hoped the administration would use the money to hire more staff and “reward the hardworking doctors they already have. And to keep up the good work.”

The donation was the first nonpolitical use of Morningstar Foundation funds and the first to go to any institution in the home country of the McNaughton headquarters. When asked about this, Morningstar replied, “Sometimes you just have to do people a good turn.”

CHAPTER 15 Deidre

Everyone scattered when I entered the room. “Way to make a girl feel welcome,” I muttered to the retreating bodies. Well, I thought, at least it was still early. Amariah would get a good night’s sleep before school tomorrow. I glanced around the storeroom, searching. Where was that girl?

Most of the room had completely emptied out. I saw three people struggling near a pallet of shrink-wrapped boxes. One of them wore a leather jacket with a mouse painted on the back. “Dee.” It was Mouse, of course. “Get over here! Quick!”

He held the wrist of some hapless, wide-eyed girl. A woman with a silvery dress and a Star of David tattoo held the girl’s other arm. They were having a tug-of-war over her. As I rushed toward them, I saw why Mouse was so agitated. The girl they struggled over was Olexa; I was sure of it.

I pulled the gun from the waistband of my jeans. I’d had it tucked in back behind my long coat.

“Stay where you are,” I told the woman in the sparkly dress.

“Do it, Jaye,” Mouse added. I was only a little surprised that he’d managed to learn the woman’s name already.

Jaye did as she was told, but she shook her head and stared at Mouse menacingly. “You’ll never get in,” she threatened.

“See me crying a river,” Mouse said sarcastically.

“You just wait,” Jaye muttered, holding her hands up.

Olexa, meanwhile, did nothing. Absolutely nothing, although at least she seemed to be breathing.

Her eyes stared unblinkingly. Despite my gun pointed in her general direction, her face remained flat. She didn’t seem to care, or even notice, that Mouse still gripped her wrist tightly.

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