The smell of food awoke him. Bleary-eyed, Rich noticed the tray someone had set on a table beside the bed. He started to reach for the glass of water to quench his thirst, when the door opened. The nurse halted in her tracks when she saw he was awake.
“Oh, good! I was hoping you’d awaken in time to be able to eat. Are you hungry?”
Now that she mentioned it… “Yeah. I could do with a bite or two.”
She smiled. She was a different nurse. Another non-Static. He guessed she was either a ferret or a weasel, given the shape of her face.
As she helped him to sit up, he noticed the sun was shining outside. “Is this breakfast, dinner, or supper?”
He heard her chuckle. “It’s whatever you want it to be.” After plumping the pillows behind his head, she set the tray on his lap. “Can you manage to fe
