The Wizards 1: Combat Wizard by Jack L Knapp

Author:Jack L Knapp
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Teen & Young Adult, Adventure, Military, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher: Jack L Knapp
Published: 2014-03-16T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Ray Wilson was sitting at the library table with a young Mexican woman. She appeared to be in her mid-twenties and was well dressed, as many Mexican students at UTEP are. Her skirt was perhaps a bit shorter than other women might have worn, but then, she had the legs for it. Ray had noticed them early on and decided that those legs were worth displaying.

The two had become acquainted in a class they shared and had then met later over coffee at the SUB. Ray found that he enjoyed her company and didn’t wonder particularly why she would be willing to spend some of her between-class time with him; it was enough that she did. The age difference didn’t appear to be a factor, or it might have been that she didn’t see him as anything other than a fellow student. But that relationship, slight as it was, had been enough until now. It was a beginning, in Ray’s mind; perhaps there might be something more, later on.

She had come to class today, but was clearly distracted. When he’d mentioned that, after the class ended and they filed out of the lecture hall, she had begun sobbing.

A comforting word had not helped, and going to the SUB cafeteria with an obviously distraught young woman was nothing he wanted a part of. After waiting a few minutes for her to stop weeping, he had suggested the library. They had walked there together and she had gotten her emotions under better control by the time they arrived.

The library was quiet, but there was enough background noise to cause them to speak louder than they might otherwise have done. The voices had to overcome the low murmur of other, distant, voices, and the occasional noise of copiers and printers, where UTEP’s students downloaded and printed references or scanned them through microfiche readers.

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Two people were at one of the tables and speaking when I walked into the library.

I had come to return materials and see what resources they might have regarding the medical services available in Ciudad Juarez. I knew that many Americans still crossed the border into Juarez to get dental or minor medical treatment, even though the recent drug wars had slowed medical tourism to a trickle compared to what it once had been; still, some continued to cross the border, reasoning that despite the additional danger they might be reasonably safe if they kept to established streets and only remained long enough to see a doctor or dentist. For some, the poor of El Paso and the more-affluent Mexicans who had the documents to cross the border, there was little choice. Many such Mexicans had bought, or rented, houses or apartments in El Paso when the narcowars flared up, and they now lived in the USA temporarily without any intent to change citizenship; they often lacked American health insurance, and medical costs in the US were prohibitive, compared with what was available just across the border. I was still considering whether I might join those if I found a surgeon I thought I could trust.

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