CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Five days later …
Shell walked through the hallways of the large city hospital where Father was staying. He passed doctors and nurses going to and fro, as well as patients being wheeled out of rooms or making their way down the hallways. No one paid him much attention outside of the amount necessary to avoid walking into him, but that was fine by Shell, because he didn’t want to be noticed. It helped that he was just wearing normal clothes today; a large, baggy blue t-shirt and similarly-colored blue jeans, which helped hide the shell on his back. In his hands he carried a bag containing a burger and fries, which he had gotten from the nearest fast food restaurant, as he remembered from his childhood that Father liked that particular restaurant over the others and he wan
