Chapter Nine
"You don't think it's crazy?" Lucia crossed her arms over her chest. She winced at the soreness there. She had impacted the ground hard during her rescue mission and her left breast had been a casualty. Without the added cushion of a b*a, she was sure there were bruises and scratches from the gravel under and the steel on the tracks.
Even though her breasts were sore, Lucia felt a fullness settling within her chest. Her belly was full of the warm brew she'd eaten over light conversation with Nurse Everest—Clara, she'd told Lucia to call her. Lucia had been hesitant to say much of anything for the first few minutes, but as Clara shared the details of her life and her work with a good deal of humor and not a single snide or scoff, Lucia had opened up and told her own tale of l
