My throat hurt. "Could I have some water?" How do you feel?" Is that a rhetorical question?"She laughed."Can I ask you a question?" I said."Will it be...rhetorical?"I smiled. I had an ornery nurse. I think I liked her because of that. She was about fifty years old and looked oddly familiar."What am I doing in the hospital?" You were in an auto accident. You're lucky to be alive." I do feel like I was hit by a truck." You were." Is the truck's nameplate imprinted on my body? I hurt everywhere.". Were you talking about something different?"Mary smiled sweetly at Trevor. "No, you are quite correct, Trevor. MREs are regarded by the U.S. troops as too much of a muchness, so I have worked to devise a means of varying the contained menu. Each new pack would have the basic part, the main ingredient, of a dish – the meat, or rice, or whatever, but I worked out flavouring packets to be selected by the troops. By selecting the flavouring you want, you can have a basic stew, a curried stew, one. The reason I am out in the rain on such a lovely day is because there was a mix-up at my hotel and apparently they booked my room. The little blonde girl who got my room felt awful but told me she had no where else to stay and the hotel was booked clean through the end of the month. Joy… A bum’s view of Paris. Oh well, I could do worse. I walked the streets staying under over hangs and anything that would keep the rain from pummeling me to death. I have checked three other hotels along this. .. Have you inspected all the spaces? Could you do a non invasive of all the boxes, say in the aft CD? It just might be the case that the people who filled the frames were looking ahead — I would have and I'd have had the cross members in the ship so as to avoid questions. Got the gear?..." TJ, can't it wait to morning watch; some of us need sleep" Cedric complained."Sissies the lot of you, but suits. Eight morning?" TJ agreed laughingly.Three box frames, placed strategically about the aft CD.