Chapter 21
Etan drew back when he saw several people through the rows of floor to ceiling windows, waiting in the emergency lobby of the hospital. The gray and pale green space was normally empty, and usually closed unless there was an accident. Sandy usually worked out of a normal office on the other side of the three-story brick building for appointments.
The lights were on low, ticking and humming along with the generator. This one was set up in line with the massive water wheel in the Grasspe River a few blocks away. The generators that worked with the windmills up on Maple Ridge to supply the operating rooms were fueled by alcohol from the massive sugar beet crop they brought in every year.
All Alex’s work, results of a months-long project helping Sandy get the hospital onto a sust
