Skin Jumper: Episode 3, Ultraviolet Tattoo
Rasko listens to a cacophony of raucous voices, unable to discern what anyone is saying. It smells like a basement —musty, moldy, rancid. Opening his eyes, he sees distinct, parallel streams of light, alive with agitated dust, breaking through a wall of windows above his head. Further up, a high ceiling of wooden arches. He props himself up to look over the room. There are three lanes of sickbeds, two lanes running horizontally along the walls and one jammed through the center. It’s Khowa Hospital, located near the center of the city about two hours walking distance from the ports. Rasko is housed in the poor man's hospital, a series of medical facilities that treat the indigent, the mentally ill and the incarcerated. It has earned the name ‘the tool shed’ for its ghastly amputations and brutal surgeries.
Rasko rubs his hand over dried blood and a bandaged wound. He feels filthy and can
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