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The Fivehundredandfirst
Teri was aware of a
slight gaposis as she fastened the buttons on her scrubs – just a
tad more on her hips and her upper body, but hey, she thought, the
more the merrier: “oh, I'm a slyboots,” she thought, for Mister
MacMurdo would be working today and she noticed more than twice the
way his eyes undressed her whenever they encountered each other; she
would be his adjuvant today, ever at his side, handing him whatever
he wanted – well, maybe not everything on a plate, he'd have to
earn that – or, more correctly, everything he needed to
perform his work; the first patient, she noted, on glancing at the
list was an elderly man she had seen before, and often considered to
be an autochthon, as if he were carrying the genes of the original
Neanderthal inhabitants of the area, long before the
Romans came
marching in columns over the hills and into the broad valley, the
people who had dug out and raised up their fort on the top of the
Eildons, and probably lived in the Cavern system which had newly been
identified, for there were still families extant who in their
features presented a glimpse of those long-ago people, seeming to be
direct descendants; but thinking of the Cavern made her wonder about
her cousin Roxy Davidova, leader of the Unionist Party at Holyrood,
who had been lowered into the Cavern only yesterday and seemed to
have mysteriously disappeared – what could possibkly have happened
to Roxy down there?
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