“Why don't we put this conversation on hold until Anh Long gets here,” Shocker suggested. “He'll know more, and we can plan without speculation.”
“While we're waiting for the head honcho and his weird son, I'll tell you a story,” Perry said with infectious cheer. We couldn't help but smile at him. He grinned at his mood-enhancing talent and launched into one of his many humorous nursing tales. “I used to work with an R.N. named Troie. She was about ten years younger than me, but was sharper than guys with twice my experience. She was a supervisor on the second floor,” he said, referring to the Ocean Springs Hospital. “We went to lunch together sometimes. Troie was a riot, always able to make light of bad situations. You pretty much had to, working around disease and death all the time, or
