Chapter 5
Birk endured four more days without significant change taking place in the woman’s condition. The medical robots looked on that stability as a positive sign, but it only served to make Birk edgy. He went on wide-ranging food expeditions, even though the larder was currently stocked. He excused it by saying that they would need more food on hand when the woman recovered, and Arthur did not challenge that statement.
At least twice a day, Birk would go over to the hospital and stand in the woman’s room, looking at her as though she were on display in a museum. Her facial features became more and more familiar, and he began to realize how harshly he had judged her the first few times he’d seen her. There was beauty in her face; not the Nordic type he was used to, not Reva’s beauty
