"Ekstrom, can you hear me?"
The full-body suit laying in the hospital bed groaned something that sounded like "Uh-huh".
"Mr. Ekstrom, I"m Jason Milkweed. I"m an investigator with the Medical Examiner"s office. I know you"re not feeling well but I"d like to ask you a few questions about the blast at the Opulenz apartments last night. Are you able to answer my questions, Mr. Ekstrom?"
Not feeling well? Was this kid joking? Klaus relished some pain in his life occasionally, but this was far beyond masochistic enjoyment. Every damn bone and muscle felt as if it had been removed from his body and beat on a brick wall. And the pulsating heat on his face and across much of his upper body was almost unbearable.
Thank God for the opiate-based numbing gas delivered to his skin by the DACS suit h
