Beyond The Chaos Gate by Quentin Ravensbane

Author:Quentin Ravensbane [Ravensbane, Quentin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-08T06:00:00+00:00

15 the hospital

Sunday 14, 2019@ 10:34 PM

Garret, Ian, and Freya were getting tired of hanging out at the hospital. They had brought Oscar in to get him checked out earlier in the day. In the Emergency Room, they had verified that he had a concussion, a diagnosis which has a prognosis of varying trauma levels.

Strangely enough, Jonny had volunteered to hang the new door in the front entrance of the house while they took Oscar to the hospital. He assured them that he was up to the task and that he would keep his handgun on him at all times until their return.

After almost three hours of the nursing staff ignoring Oscar, he finally merited a transfer to an urgent care bed from the emergency room. He suffered the hilarious but demeaning trip through the hospital elevator and floors to his assigned bed. Garret, Ian, and Freya stayed with him all the way.

In the emergency room, Garret had time on his hands, so he told the three of them about his resolution of the Crawford problem. Oscar had a good headache, but he still managed to muster a sense of satisfaction that Crawford was no longer in the picture.

Everything was going slower than usual at the hospital because well over half of their staff was no longer showing up for work. They were simply missing, and only a handful of them had bothered to call to explain why they would be absent. Garret suspected that many of them would no longer be in a fit shape to work if they had been touched by whatever this thing was that was in the town.

There was one period of excitement during their stay in the ER. A deer, with a full stag rack of antlers, walked through the emergency room automatic doors. Once in the ER, the deer became spooked and began wildly running back and forth, trying to find a way out, and causing plenty of damage.

After a couple of minutes of hysterically dashing about, seeking a way out, the deer saw the glint of headlights coming through the glass emergency doors, and it charged the doors frantically. The doors had only just detected the deer's forward movement, and began to open, when the deer crashed into and through the glass doors, shattering the thick glass. The collision of deer and door also left glass shards splattered around the doorway and a frightened and bloody deer just outside of the automatic doors. The deer staggered to its feet and ran out of sight with a sort of limping trot.

The nursing staff had assured the trio of watchers that they would only need to monitor Oscar overnight, in order to verify that Oscar was not going to descend into shock or seizures. In the morning, he would be free to go home, assuming that no negative symptoms manifested.

"It has been a long time since breakfast," Freya complained. "Is there any place to get food here?"

"I was here a couple of years ago," Ian replied, "and I remember that the cafeteria is in the basement.

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