CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
One week later …
I walked through the halls of Golden City General Hospital. That normally would not have made me feel very strange or awkward, because I’d visited this hospital before. What made it kind of awkward was the fact that I was in full Beams costume, complete with helmet and visor. As a result, the various doctors, nurses, hospital workers, and patients who wandered the halls of the Hospital kept glancing at me or whispering my name to their friend like I was some kind of rare cryptid spotted in the wild. Granted, some of the nurses were pretty cute, but most of the attention I got was the kind of attention a movie star or famous athlete would get if he walked through a normal city hospital, and I found that I didn’t like it as much as I expected.
But for
