If I could keep Teddy cooped up in that lift cage for the rest of his natural life, I would cheerfully do so. And that went for the others, too! It was still raining, but not so heavily, and the wind had dropped. Without the electrical storm raging around us, Jocasta had managed to eke out the batteries in her transistor long enough to get us a position report on storm damage before the voice faded to a whisper and gave up. “We’ll try again at the top of the hour,” Jocasta said. “When the batteries are this low you can sometimes get the first few sentences of the news bulletin before they fade out.” She spoke with such expertise that I gathered forgetting to renew the batteries was a common occurrence in her life. “We got the gist of it.” Nigel looked on the bright side. “Such as it was.” Evangeline was having none of that. “The emergency services may be working full out, but it doesn’t look as though much will happen in our area for hours yet.” “Naturally, they’re working to get the hospitals back on line first,” Jocasta said.
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