5
George faded out before he learned her name.
He faded back in for doctors and once more for food, both of which she slept through. They, or their drugs, were badly out of sync.
Which was too bad. Because now it was two in the morning and he was wide awake with only the soft rattle of the air conditioning to keep him company.
He had learned so much over the last year to take back to his home unit. Carmen had taught him shortcuts that weren’t shortcuts, they were just ten times more efficient than how the manual said to perform a task. Captain Roberts and Danny Corvo, his copilot, had obliged him with well-considered answers to his endless questions. Their innovations in overlapping minigun coverage and infiltration techniques were going to shake up some of the ‘good old boys’ back hom
