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*Manhattan Medical*
Eighteen days after that robot had visited, Hyung awoke in the middle of the darkest part of Manhattan's
night, his bed sheets soaked with his sweat, and looked around the room frantically. The doctor had told
him "we have been monitoring you while you were in a coma. Now that you are regularly awake, we will
monitor you, with your consent, during the day". The nightmares that Hyung had been having were
starting to get mixed up in Hyung's mind, and Hyung wanted to forget them. At the same time, Hyung
couldn't get them out of his head, and he thought about them during the days as well as at nights. His
appetite had returned and usually ate the food that was supplied by the doctor, or the nice looking assistant,
with gusto. Hyung had been formulating an escape after that first day awake, and tonight was the night.

Hyung lay back down on the bed and listened to the sounds of the night. Outside the hospital, he heard the
sounds of Manhattan at night, and with a population of 2 million, as well as being the central hub of all
Liberty and indeed a large majority of Sirius, it was as active at night as it was during the day. At night
there were more 'unsavoury' people roaming around - with 'business' transactions that were best kept
hidden from authorities. There were ships bustling here and there to make the deadlines that corrupt or
overzealous business men and government legislation forced upon unwilling workers. Couples in love
walking and laughing or teenagers talking loudly and without a care in the world.

Inside the Hospital, in the psychiatric ward, it was quiet and still. Hyung closed his eyes and his sense of
hearing became more focused and acute, a little trick that oft comes instinctively to many people of a
similar lifestyle to Hyung. He heard the low hum of the electronics in the room and the uneven shuffle of the
hospital rent-a-cops who walked past, up the corridor. He heard people that talked quietly a few rooms
down and the night shift as they occasionally moved around, doing their duties as required. Hyung opened
his eyes and got off the bed. He paused as he stood up, with the hairs on his legs raised as his feet
screamed out in protest at the cold floor. He unsteadily walked over to the cupboard, opened it and saw his
fluffy bomber jacket, neatly suspended in a mini stasis beam, along with his other clothes. He listened once more
to the sounds of the hospital and, satisfied that he wasn't going to be interrupted, grabbed the jacket and
pulled the jacket out of the stasis beam. He held the jacket with one hand and fiddled with the object in the
inside pocket, the object that Ratchet had given him from his ship. He pulled it out of his pocket, switched it on
and saw a green light on the side.

Hyung, satisfied that his device purchased from the Lane Hackers worked properly, pulled the wires from
the object's slots, put the object back into in his pocket and quickly got dressed - leaving his shoes behind.
He sidled up to the door and went to one side where the internal electronic lock was supposed to be. Hyung
pulled the round object from his pocket and inserted the wires, then he put it like a stethoscope on the wall
where he thought the lock was hidden. He pushed a little button on top of the object and winced as a quiet
high pitched whine came from the device. Nothing happened. Hyung stood there for a minute thinking things
through, trying to remember what the Lane Hacker had said. He stood upright and held the device at arms
height against the wall and depressed the button. This time there was a click from the door and it parted
slightly with the door frame, a sliver of light came streaming through the door. The device switched to
standby and the mini EMP device stopped transmitting.

Hyung put his eye to the door and flinched as the shadow of a nurse walked past, yet the slightly open door
went unnoticed. After an extended time of watching and listening, he slipped out, silent on his bare feet.
He heard some footsteps and looked around frantically, saw a clothes basket and hid in it as more nurses
went past the corridor that he was in.

He hoped Ratchet had carried out the request that Hyung had asked of him.

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