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Apocalypse Dowell’s stomach felt strange; he eyed the IV attached to his arm and wondered if the fluids they were pumping into his body contained meat. If so, it wouldn’t make his stomach feel strange, just his veins and arteries, so he decided it must be something else. Something else was turning his stomach.
Mick Aloha.
Dowell had been awake for less than five minutes, and already he had the urge to strangle Aloha, like a constant whispering in his ear, the same whispering serial killers blamed for their misdeeds, the same whispering that drew people to…
The voice. Before he’d been knocked out—not fallen asleep as Aloha had said—he’d heard a voice. The voice had been familiar, but Dowell still couldn’t place it. Who would send a messenger robot to them? Who used messenger robots anymore? It had to have been someone in trouble, but who did they know who was in trouble?