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Thirty-Six Saving Jude
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None of us were too pleased to be cabin bound for month after month. I knew it was exactly how we would have felt back in the village even though we would have had more space to move and more options for sex. After the first few weeks we had set up required exercises for everyone. Raul and Tomas were resistant at first but as the snow continued without relief they understood the need for something to do other than sex, it was surprising how quickly their bodies picked up muscle and dropped baby fat. After our last haul of goods from the truck I set up a workshop hoping to finish some or at least one of the uncompleted projects that I had packed up and brought along.
Everyday after the exercises I took Jude with me to work on a project that I knew if successful would make life in the house easier. Noel had told me that it would be a simple job, but for him most electronics work was simple. I was fortunate that the drawings he had shown me of a basic model were included in the crate of goods I had taken from the village workshop, I wondered if had managed to send it with me. I don't know how many months had passed that we were in the house with the snow piled up over all the windows leaving us with only candles and the fireplace for light. I would have been able to complete the turbine I was making much faster had I been working in full light.
"Joey, I think we will be ready for a trial of the turbine tomorrow. Have you figured out which way the wind is blowing?" I had asked him to figure that out without telling him what I had planned. Each time I had tried to figure it out it seemed the wind changed direction every few hours.
""Raul and I think the wind blows past the ends of the house most of the time. Like you thought, it changes back and forth every few hours. It definitely hits the front and back of the house, head-on."
The room we were using for exercises had been opened up to the main part of the house by tearing away all the plaster board for warmth and light. The other room held most of the crates we had taken from the truck and a single mattress that Tomas used at night. Raul was sleeping between Joey, our boys and I on the mattresses we had pushed together in front of the fireplace. There was only one window that might be usable for the turbine and that was going to chase Tomas out of his bed. If everything worked the way I thought it should we were going to need the mattress to help block the cold from coming in that room's doorway.
If you've ever tried to read by candle light you know how much we needed to get some electricity in the house. First I wanted some light and second I was hoping we would be able to charge the med bot. Locked up like we were I thought we should all get an examination before something happened. I didn't know why, but we hadn't had colds or flus since leaving the village. Third, we needed some power to run the ham radio, I had been missing my children and Jude had been asking about his brothers (note, not his twin sisters).
We were bundled as much as we could be to work in the closed quarters around the window. Joey was admitting to me that he was glad to be doing something with his hands other than cooking. He had been trying to stay busy to combat his claustrophobia but once we had the window open I could see the desire on his face to be outside. I didn't rush that portion of the installation, allowing Joey to breath in fresh air and look at something other than the four walls he had been seeing for what had to be six months. I supposed I should admit that I enjoyed admiring the white landscape, also.
"Joey, we need to close up. If we let much more air in we're going to get frost bitten. Your nose is already bright red." I had a full mask over my head so I wasn't likely to freeze off my nose but I was worrying about my fingers. I wasn't able to do the fastening and adjusting with heavy gloves on my hands so I was touching the bare metal with bare fingers. The wind would blow out our candles so often that it was taking more time than I had planned. We finally admitted we were too cold and the wind was defeating us. It was going to take a second day to finish the installation.
"Raul is cooking our dinner?"
"He found some ingredients that he said he could use to make one of his family's meals over the fire. As long as I don't have to go in there this cold and try to stand over the fire I'll be happy with whatever he cooks." He had a hand wrapped over his nose so I had trouble understanding every word but I got the idea. We had learned it wasn't good to try warming too fast.
We hadn't managed to build a weather proof cage for the window so we spent an hour blocking the window with the mattress and blocking it tight with the crates piled high in the room. I had explained to Jude what needed to be done in the breaker box so that when the turbine was working we could feed electricity to the house. Although he was only eight Raul and Tomas did what he explained needed to be done. I had a few minutes to check their work before dinner, Jude had them do it exactly the way I had told him: he had learned enough Spanish and they had learned some English.
"So tomorrow we should have electricity through the whole house?"
"We'll try a few circuits at a time. I am not one hundred percent sure I have done everything needed on the turbine well enough to run everything. We'll get some light and a place to charge the bot. After that we'll get the radio powered so we can talk to the village." If Noel had been with me I would have gone for the whole house on the first day but without his handiwork I wanted to take it slow.
"I wish all your work would have been to getting us out of here." As if I couldn't tell that when he was looking out the window where we were working.
"Joey, we're stuck until some of this snow either blows away or starts to melt." The trick Raul had used to get to the woodpile and truck had made me think about using heat with the plow but I hadn't figured out a way to do that for more than a few minutes.
"Roger, do you think you could build some snowshoes, next? If I could get over to the trailer I could bring over more of the chile and cumin. I'm not sure, but there also might be some other food we could use. Especially stuff for Toro."
There were days I wondered if the dog still belonged to Raul. Toro trailed Jude around everywhere he went. I knew my son liked the dog but I had never gotten over my initial fear of him. I worried that given the chance the dog would mount Jude and try fucking him. He hadn't given any indication that he intended to do that but Raul was allowing Toro to dominate him some nights so the dog was still accustomed to fucking humans not allowing me to get over my first impression..
"Where am I going to sleep tonight?" I knew that Tomas would need to find a different place to sleep now that his mattress was being used as insulation but hadn't given it as much thought as I should. There was room on the two mattresses we had pushed together but Tomas wasn't completely over the abuse he had suffered at the truck stop and was not able to sleep where another man might rub up behind him and push a cock in his ass. He had slept with Jude and I a couple nights dressed in long-johns and pants, I didn't enjoy rubbing up against his pants in my sleep, but he was such a sweet boy I wanted to hold him and he seemed to appreciate the touch of another man.
"Tomas, if you'll come to bed in only your long-johns you may sleep with Jude and I." The long-johns were nice and soft on the outside as well as the inside.
"Si, Tomas. Sleep with me." I wasn't crazy about hearing my son was so anxious to have another boy sleep with him. I didn't think he wanted anything other than to sleep and talk but I worried that Tomas might think he was asking for more. Even though Tomas had always been careful to keep his asshole covered in bed I had wakened twice with his cock in my hand or out of his pants and pressed up against me, I was going to have to be careful about how he was with my son.
That was the way he acted once he lay down to sleep, but before that he was a different person. Since the first night when he had ridden my cock like a bull rider he had often gotten on my lap in front of the fireplace and rode me to two or three orgasms. I didn't think he had tried riding Joey's dick but I knew there were a few times that I had found him allowing Raul to fuck him. He also would try to get Ace or Deuce to suck his dick almost every morning after breakfast.
That wasn't that strange. There was a lot of sex happening everyday in the house. If you didn't shoot at least one load it was totally your own fault. Ace was the only one not permitted that pleasure besides Jude who was too young. Joey hadn't replaced Deuce's cage after the night he allowed him to shoot in my ass so when Raul or Tomas went to suck his dick Deuce allowed them if Joey permitted. I honestly thought Tomas and Raul should sleep together more often but there seemed to be an antagonism between them that Toro picked up on and kept them apart if they lay on the same bed at the same time.
"How do you think you are going to be able to get to the top of the snow to be able to use snowshoes? The snow out there is higher than any of our heads." If I had made them first they could have slipped out the window where we were installing the turbine. I wasn't willing to delay that any longer so he would have to find another way.
"I'll figure out a way." I'm sure he would, but I wasn't sure he would be able to do it without getting hurt. He had told us about the number of times that he had injured himself while living in the trailer.
I didn't know if we really would have any materials that I might be able to use to make anything that would hold him up on top of the snow. That night I dreamed that all seven of us had given up on the snow ever stopping and had put on snow shoes to leave the area. I woke in the middle of the night, at first I thought it was because of the nightmare but in a few moments I realized that someone was sucking and chewing on my toes. I looked under the blanket to find out that Tomas and Raul were both sucking at my feet. Everyone else had fallen asleep so I tried pushing my way under the blanket to get closer to the boys.
I hadn't moved more than a foot or so when I felt the pair take hold of my legs and start sliding me down to them. I had fucked Ace earlier that night but having them sucking my toes had my cock standing as solid as a tree trunk. I was thinking that having either of them giving me a blow job would be wonderful. My calves dropped over the edge of the bed and the two stopped pulling. I let them take the lead, they had a clear intent and I thought it would be fair to allow them to get what they wanted as long as whatever they wanted included me shooting a load.
One of them held my balls up from their nest. Ace had carefully shaved me earlier that night with the electric razors that had been popular when the attack hit it was down to its last charge but I allowed him to use it since we would have electricity soon. You never felt anything with that razor if you did it right, the only obstacle Ace had was that he would get too anxious to lick or suck on me when he had my balls in his hand for the time it took him to clear the fine hair, any moisture he might leave would make shaving more difficult. The razor was a type of laser that Left no stubble for a week and every time you used it the hair that grew back was finer until if you used it regularly enough you didn't have hair or whiskers grow back. The hair around my asshole was so fine when the attack hit that I thought I was close to being rid of it forever, unfortunately without electricity in the houses in Maine I had to start using safety razors from the twentieth century.
`The interruption of the treatment had more hair come back as course as ever. I had managed a year of the treatment while we were in the village but once we Left I once more started to grow coarse pubic hair that I had Ace shave. I had always been more concerned with getting the hair off my ass but I enjoyed having my balls licked and sucked when they were freshly shaved. I had never mentioned it to anyone. Tomas and Raul had sat watching Ace shave me and giggled as they saw my egg sized balls hang down four inches, with my legs spread hitting my asshole.
Now they attacked me not with their tongue but they each sucked a ball into their mouth. I had my balls sucked many times in my life. Usually the boy or man has licked at both balls and is unfortunately only able to suck in one ball at a time. Having both balls being sucked and rolled on an eager tongue had me ready to shoot a load, I thought my balls were starting to draw up to my body but one of the pair grabbed my sac above the balls and wouldn't allow it to happen. Whichever one of them giggled earlier started giggling again, suddenly they were lifting my legs and both mouths started kissing and licking their way towards my asshole. My taint isn't especially sensitive so while they worked their way from my balls to my asshole I had a couple minutes to relax enough that I no longer needed to shoot. Whichever of them was to the left lapped up one side of my asshole and instantly the other lapped his way down along the other side of my asshole. For I don't know how long they teased me, licking up and down the sides, barely flicking their tongues against my asshole and never probing.
I didn't care which of them would, but I wanted a tongue in my ass and tried squirming back on their tongues, they continued teasing me. I know I was making noise and everyone at the top of the bed started tossing and turning but no one woke. It took me a few moments to know that one of the pair had stopped licking at my asshole and then started to fill me with a grease. I had wanted a tongue in me, did I want a dick? I pushed back on the fingers greasing me and one slid in easily. Which ever of the two new men in the house was fingering me he was doing a good job at making me want to open and take any dick offered. Tomas flipped the blanket off of me so he could take the head of my cock in his mouth.
At the same time Raul began pushing his dick against my asshole. Although both he and Tomas had five to six inches of cock he was thinner than Tomas and his dick slid in easily. I sighed as he pushed his entire dick into my ass, it was the first time I had a cock in my ass in weeks. For the first few strokes I thought I wished it was Joey or Junior fucking me and my cock was being pushed into my mouth, not that Tomas was doing a bad job sucking in the head and a few inches of my cock. The connection I had with Junior and Joey was that much more emotional than I had with Tomas and Raul although I had admitted to myself that Raul resembled Jesus so much that given time I might begin to prefer him over Joey if I ever got over the difference in dick size.
They began to alternate sucking and fucking. I'd been in that position before but this time they were muttering things about how they felt I should be their 'puta'. I think it was the third or forth time that Tomas knelt on the bed to suck at my cock that I grabbed him by the hips and swung his dick around so that I could suck on him while Raul was fucking me. His dick was greasier than I thought it would be, a few moments after starting I pulled off and spit the grease on his asshole and then pressed it into him with my tongue. It may have been the first or second time that anyone had been able to squeeze down on my tongue hard enough to actually hurt it. As soon as I pulled out he and Raul changed places again, this time with Raul not only sucking my cock but over me so I would suck his dick, too.
Tomas was the first to shoot in my ass, I was surprised at how full his load made me feel and when Raul plowed into me right after Tomas came I knew he was forcing cum back over my butt and onto my back. He fucked for a good five minutes in Tomas' cum before adding his to my full ass. They gently lowered my legs so that my feet rested on the floor before Tomas lowered himself on my cock and began bouncing up and down. I had been ready to cum earlier and having two loads of cum shot in my ass had primed me again but I tried to hold back the best I could imagining anything I could that wasn't at all sexual. When they switched up and Raul started riding my cock I was so close to shooting that I was making enough noise that I woke the dog and both Joey and Ace.
Toro went straight for the cum seeping from my asshole. Raul and Tomas had been bouncing too hard for the other to get his head in there. I wasn't ready for the smooth long tongue of the dog. Just as Raul pulled off and Tomas stood over me I shot cum everywhere. Without a hand, mouth or ass to direct the flow cum hit Tomas, me, Joey and ace. As I slowed down both Raul and Tomas pushed up against me and licked every drop of cum they could find from my body. Joey was excited by what he was watching, I'm not sure if that was Raul and Tomas or Toro, it didn't take a minute for him to add to the mass of cum on my stomach and chest. Tomas and Raul didn't stop licking up the cum, Ace took my cock in his mouth and worked what cum remained in my balls and shaft out, to swallow.
After that night Raul and Tomas slept between Joey and I with Ace and Deuce on the outside of the bed. It didn't take a week before Raul was using Ace as his morning urinal the same with Tomas and Deuce. Using Ace and Deuce allowed us to stay warm until they built up the fire. As strictly as I guarded against Jude getting involved in any of the sex if he had asked I was thinking I might allow him to use Ace also, none of us liked getting out of the bed into the cold in the mornings. Fortunately it didn't happen so I didn't have the moral dilemma but there were times I had to remind Tomas that Jude was off limits.
Getting an antenna to stick far enough out of the snow took us a few days. I wasn't that good at operating the radio, Joey had sat with his father trying to understand what he might need to do if we lost contact so he was given the job of trying to find the village. While he was doing that I searched through the crates for anything I could use to make two pair of snowshoes. Everyone had insisted that if Raul leave someone should go with him. There were many dangers, from falling through the snow to an encounter with the wolves. As soon as I let him know that I was working on his request he and Tomas started to work on a way they could reach the top of the truck, clear it off and find a location where they would be able to step off on their journey.
We didn't have a hot enough fire to bend any of the metal pieces I found. They didn't want to wait for months while the few pieces of wood I found that might bend would take to assume the correct form. I was almost through all of the crates when I saw a box of PVC piping that had been left from when the house had been built. I honestly didn't know whether that would work but I thought they should be light enough and that I should be able to make a large enough platform for those headed out to stay on top of the snow. As I searched the box I realized that most of what I had in front of me were connections, not many pieces of piping that could stretch from front to back.
I had drawn a picture of what I was planning at the beginning but looking at the pieces in front of me I knew that I was going to have to change the idea. I had put all the pieces back in the box and carried it over to where I had been doing most of my work. Joey called me over, to where he was with the radio getting frustrated, just to talk while he went through as many adjustments as he had. I wasn't thinking about Jude, he could always find something to do if Left to his own designs. Joey and I were discussing what I might be able to use to create a light enough platform to work with the PVC when Jude tapped me on the shoulder. He was unusually silent and beckoned me to go with him.
Sitting on the floor of the house in the work area were four frames for snowshoes that he had put together while I was ignoring him. I went to hug him but he held me off and pointed to a bundle of waxed rope that we had along in case we needed to rope down a tent. I nodded and immediately he showed me how he thought he could use the rope for a platform if we could make it so the rope wouldn't slide. We didn't have a saw but a heavy file later we had notches that stopped the rope from moving back and forth. How it happened I don't know, but we worked straight through dinner until Raul came to say goodnight. I held up a pair of the snow shoes and said 'thank Jude.'
That night Tomas and Raul were bouncing around in the bed so much I rolled over so I could hold onto Raul and told Tomas to go sleep next to Deuce. They were so excited to be going out in the snow I doubted that either of them slept more than three hours that night. Jude and I had the final snowshoe finished by the time we normally ate the mid-day meal. As soon as they finished eating they were off. They had promised that they wouldn't be more than one day. Jude and I worked at making another pair of the snowshoes in case anyone needed to go out searching for the boys.
He thought it was time for him to stop working on the radio and start Dinner when Joey got his first signal. After playing with the radio for thirty minutes we heard his father calling out for anyone listening. It took them another ten minutes but soon everyone was able to talk. More important than even the radiation report was the chance for Jude to speak with his brothers and to say hello to his sisters. Ton asked if we could speak in private for a moment, that was probably more difficult on his end than mine. He started talking rather hesitantly. I finally asked what was wrong.
"Dad, I think I'm pregnant."
"I thought you were going to take precautions until you were older?" Damn, why did I say that. I needed to be supportive and that wasn't what he needed to hear.
"Ton, have you talked to Dr. Rhoda?" Not the best response either.
"She isn't certain, yet. The ultrasound machine broke down and Joey's dad has been trying to fix it but he been working at it for three weeks and hasn't got it running yet." My son was almost in tears, I couldn't tell why.
"Ton, do you want to be pregnant?" It is rough for a guy to carry a baby and if he didn't want to do it life would be rough. Rhoda and the other doctor had admitted that neither of them would agree to ending a fetus' life.
"I think so." He didn't sound too confidant but at least he was thinking he wanted to carry the child.
"Have you fallen in love with someone that you want to give a child?" I really hoped that he had, doing it on his own would be more than I could wish on my son.
"You won't get mad?" How could I, I had been in the same shape too many times to even think about getting angry.
"No. Why?" There wasn't anyone that came to mind that I wanted for him but it was his heart. I had a moment's misgivings, could it be his twin's child?
"I think I'm in love with him, but I'm sure he isn't in love with me. You know how Pablo acts most of the time, I don't even know if he would be happy to be a father.
"Are you sure it would be his? I'm not accusing you of anything, I just want you to be sure." We had talked about that but I still wanted to hear him say it.
"He and my brother have been the only ones I've allowed to fuck me. Pablo is the only one that I think it could be. I've made my brother use a condom every time even though he hates them."
I hadn't been thinking about becoming a grandfather since the day Ton and I had discussed how we are built. I still have two little girls that aren't going to school. A son that is six and another one that just turned eight.
"Ton, we are going to need to talk more while you are pregnant, if you are. Why hasn't Dr. Rhoda allowed the med bot to give you a finger scan?"
"She has had them shut off for the last year or so."
"Has she started you on shots and vitamins?" I hoped she was taking care of him the way my original doctor had said necessary.
"We started those as soon as I started to vomit every morning. How did you survive that?"
"I never had problem that too bad. With you and your brother not until the third trimester, with Jude not more than for a week, Shiloh even less and then with the girls a few weeks towards the end of the second trimester.
"Are you having a problem?"
"Every morning for the last three weeks. Eating crackers to settle my stomach isn't working." He sounded so sad. I wished I could be with him, only then realizing what grandmothers felt like while their daughters were pregnant.
"I always used a few bites of sweet rolls. Joey made sure there were always some Left after breakfast." It was the only advice I had for him on combating his morning sickness.
"Call Dr. Rhoda in so we can talk to her and see what to do to help you."
"Roger, how have you been?" She sounded pleased to hear my voice.
"I'm doing well although we have been cabin bound for at least a year. You?" I just wanted to get the pleasantries out of the way.
"I have been bored, the only thing happening here is more babies."
"That's why I wanted to talk with you."
"I thought so." She didn't sound too happy about it.
"If Hieronymus can't get your ultrasound working soon why don't you activate the med bot and have him do a finger scan. You will need to educate him on the extra parts my son has but after that he should be able to help determine more about Ton's condition."
"I'll do that if I have to. Right now I'm sure he is pregnant we're just not sure how far along since he hasn't been gaining any weight or showing. I've already had to give him fluids to counteract the vomiting. If he doesn't start putting on some weight soon we may have to put him on a feeding tube."
"Please have the med bot check him before you do that." I had never had a feeding tube but I knew when Junior had one that he hated it and would still curse it months later.
"Okay, Roger. For you I'll do that as soon as I can get one up and running." She sounded resigned to getting the med bot involved.
Ton went on to tell me more about his brothers and sisters. I was shocked to learn that Shiloh was taking after Jude even though he wasn't there as a bad example. Most of what I was told was everyday things. I did learn that the village hadn't been attacked again and was experiencing the snow much the same as we were although they weren't actually trying or needing to get outside. Before he was finished he did tell me that Tiffan was doing well with the girls.
Joey and his father arranged it so we would be able to reach each other every evening after dinner if anyone needed or wanted anything. I promised them that I would be wanting to talk with Ton.
We had been so excited to talk with the village that we had forgotten that Raul and Tomas were due back and hadn't arrived. Over dinner we discussed the idea of going out to search for them. Joey was the natural since he was so claustrophobic and wanted out of the cabin. I was a better shot with any of the guns and thought maybe I should go but Joey reminded me that Ton would be needing me for the next few months and that risking my life was not a good idea. We agreed that the first thing after breakfast the next day we would get him set to take off.
"Dad, I don't feel good." Jude had never complained about how he felt. I put my hand on his forehead, not knowing what to expect since I had never had to deal with any of my boys being ill. My hand felt like he was burning up. I was glad the med bot had been charged and was waiting in the corner to be used.
"Joey, will you bring the med bot over. I think our son is sick and I don't know what to do." Neither of us had gotten out of bed yet. I really didn't have any idea other than to have him checked out by the bot. As a child I had never been ill. My only interaction with doctors had been due to the children, including the one that hadn't survived and the time I had spent underfed in the cavern.
It is surprising in a way that the bot needs to take a history just like any human doctor. I had thought that we had Rhoda program the bot with our history but I might be wrong. As the bot started to examine Jude he moved quickly to center his attention on Jude's abdomen. It wasn't five minutes later that he pronounced Jude as having appendicitis. The immediate diagnosis called for him to take medicine with the acknowledgment that if he didn't respond within twenty-four hours that he would need an operation to remove the appendix. I really hoped he would respond.
We used snow to try and bring his temperature down but as soon as the snow was melted and the cloth holding it was no longer cold his temperature was back up. It was almost time for the mid-day meal when Joey remarked that if Tomas and Raul didn't make it within an hour that he was going to need to start out to find them. I thought he should be there for his son but I knew that he felt he needed to be there for the entire group as well as for my son and I.
Jude and I hadn't attached the straps that were needed to hold the wearer's shoes to the last of the snowshoes so as soon as he was done eating Joey started to work on that. I wouldn't leave Jude's side other than to get him something to drink or change out the cloths we were using on his head and chest to cool him. Joey was starting to bundle up when Tomas and Raul crawled into the house through the tunnel that lead to the woodpile. They had Left with one back pack each, mostly empty, they returned with two each so full the straps were on the last hole.
While they emptied the packs Joey gave them a hard time about not being on time until he heard that they had to stay in the trailer for most of the time because of a wolf that was outside of it pacing from one end to the other. They didn't have to confront the wolf but were afraid the entire way back that he would follow them. Tomas needed attention from the med bot, he and Raul had been standing over the woodpile when it collapsed his right leg and side had been scraped badly enough that he was bleeding through four layers of clothing and the parka.
Before we had the med bots in the village to help Rhoda, Pablo and Deuce had spent time there learning some of what a normal nurse could do to help in an emergency or when there was an operation needed. They had been training in case we had another hand to paw battle with the wolves. Deuce had helped deliver a couple of the babies and set a broken leg. The operations that Rhoda had to do on me were the most complicated of any she had after we left Amarillo and had been fortunate to have Karen as her nurse on all of them. Deuce had limited experience but he would have to be the one to help the med bot when the appendectomy was necessary. He stayed with Jude while the med bot and I cared for Tomas, fortunately for me and I suppose him it was all surface damage.
I wasn't feeling that confident about the bot's ability to operate on my son but I knew that it was probably the most competent of any one in the house. We set the operation for the time we would be on the radio with the village. I hoped that I could have Rhoda talking with me as the bot did the work. I didn't know what it would take to correct the bot if there was a problem but at the very least she could tell me what Deuce could do to help if needed. It wasn't ideal, there was no way for Rhoda to see what was happening and my knowledge of body parts might not be enough to tell her exactly what she should be hearing.
The bot did something to my son's neck and Jude told him that he couldn't feel anything below his chin. Rhoda told me that was one of the improvements on medical care the submarine bots had developed so there was less equipment and chemicals required on board the ships. Deuce had washed the area where the bot had explained he would need to cut into Jude with a medical soap. They doused the area with some antibiotics and without halting the bot picked up a scalpel and made a small cut into my son. I hated to watch the bot slice through the fibers of my son's muscles first one direction and then the perpendicular in moments the enlarged and discolored appendix appeared. With Deuce holding back the folds of skin the bot quickly snipped the appendix from the intestine and carefully removed it from his body.
The bot had my son sewed up and feeling his body within another twenty minutes. As the bot gave Jude and I instructions for the following two weeks it sounded almost mechanical, I was glad my son had been in the hands of such competence. Rhoda agreed with everything the bot did and told us so. Jude was mostly in Deuce's hands, the bot sterilized its equipment and went into its sleeping state. Two weeks later Jude was back to normal and causing as much trouble as ever.