Chapter 5Making a new entry in the sick bay’s journal, Shae could scarcely believe how slowly time was going. Just over a week had passed since their arrival and it felt like an eternity. Cartwright hadn’t been wrong.
They’d brought cards and chess with them and played in their room when the changes in shifts took place for the miners. They were the times when the bathing rooms and the dining hall were likely to be populated by Adair’s men and so they avoided being out at those times.
As far as work went, they were equally shunned by the miners. No one called into the sick bay, not even for so much as a pill for a headache.
He closed the journal and focused on Bless. They were in agreement that there was little point being stuck in the sick bay with no patients, and Shae didn’t want eit
