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"That damn buzzing is still there. What the hell can it be...."

Hull ran thru the list of times it went off.

None of them were pleasant....

Only 2 other times was it louder than what was going off in his head right now.........

Once, Out in Sigma 13, when the freighter I had shipped out on after my 18th birthday had been attacked, and had been caught under a collapsing bulkhead that had smashed my skull....

The Blue apparition that had found me....it came right up and touched me for a moment, but then it backed off, leaving me for dead. After it had touched me, the buzzing started. It slacked off in volume as it withdrew....

The other time when he had Mental contact with Miranda, a worshiper of the Nomads........

The Docs tried to tell me that it was the Polycarbonate/Metal bone replacement material that was in my skull. Apparently the seam where it met his regular bone had formed a junction, just like a Diode. The Doctors had told him something like this may occur, but they had no idea...Rumor was after being touched like that... I would always be "sensitive" to things going on around me.....

His friend Jason had kidded him that he wouldn't be able to go thru a metal detector too easily....

Pulling himself back to the moment, Hull discreetly touched his personal communicator, keying in a preset..and transmitted it...

The next thing he took stock of as what firepower he had on him... and remembered the weight under his left armpit.

Jason always told me "Don't leave home without it"....

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Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station