5 - BoneyardSimms half-stepped, half-fell from the gateway at London Euston jump node. He sprawled forwards onto the concrete and lay unmoving for a moment, gazing through a blurred confusion of hurrying legs. His med plug-in pumped painkillers into him but the wound in his head - the second wound in his head - throbbed sharply. Between the analgesia and all the blood he'd lost, he was finding it hard to think straight. Still, he didn't care. He'd escaped Forty Days. They were insane, utterly insane. If there was a scale, they were way off the end. They weren't even in sight from the end.
And he had agreed to work for them. What the hell did that make him?
Gritting his teeth, he climbed to his knees and up onto wobbly legs. Someone rushing for a gateway knocked him sideways, nearly sendi
