"Lahny Base Hospital."

“Captain Fosher Whim, please.”

“One moment, please.”

“Captain Whim speaking?”

“Fosh, its Luke.”

“How’d you know I was here?”

“We’re replacing you on Phantom. Which, I must say, was a great way to find out you were in a freaking hospital.”

“Yeah, about that…”

“You better be about to tell me Sera didn’t know either, or so help me—”

“She didn’t. Doesn’t.”

“What exactly happened anyway? No way should they have gotten the jump on Jase.”

“He was elbow deep in some farmer’s chest. I got called away, and they snuck up on him. Definitely not the phantoms though; these guys were clumsy. No way would they have got him had he not been… otherwise distracted. I was jumped when I came back to check Jase’s progress, but Jansen and I took them down without too much difficulty, though Jansen’s got a broken arm, and I cracked three ribs. Jase was unconscious by the time we had things under control, so we checked out and came here.”

“He’s awake now though?”

“Yeah. Since last night.”

“Redirect me?”

“No.”

“Why the hell not!?”

“He doesn’t need to get worked up. Besides, he’s not exactly lucid, Luke. Drugs and surgery will do that to a guy.”

“If it were possible to kill someone over a radio—”

“I’d be a pile of steaming goo?”

“Something like that.”

“We’ll see you in a week or two.”

“Whatever.”

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