"Do you know if your system has a read-out port?"
Rad thought for a minute. "I believe so," he said.
Captain Timms stepped forward and opened Rad's coat so she
could get at the bio-comp. She looked it over a minute and
then closed his coat. She reached into a pocket of her own
coat and pulled out a cable. She plugged one end somewhere
behind her right ear. She opened Rad's coat again and
thumbed open a small port on the side of the bio-comp and plugged
the other end of the cable in.
She stood silently a moment, her eyes moving back and forth.
Unplugging the cable from his bio-comp she declared, "Your
system is doing everything that it thinks it has to do.
Beyond that I haven't the slightest clue what to do for you.
I'm just a Cyber-Doc not a Juicer Mechanic. As a
regular doctor I'd suggest getting warm whatever way you can
manage."
Rad gave a meaningful look to the back of her head as she
walked away. "Shock," he said, "real good bedside manner."
He looked Captain Timms over from head to foot but the
armour she was wearing underneath of the coat hid whatever figure
she had. Max was on the radio suddenly, asking for a report.
Rad wrapped his arms around himself while Chris made the
report. Max came over on Rad's private channel. "Get
your frozen backside to the retreat point. We're setting up
camp
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