He watched as the man in the lab coat, without name tag or company
insignia, studied his stack of papers attached to the clipboard.
Several yellow forms near the top half inch were labeled 27B. The man
frowned and wrote a note on the top page:
Note: Find out who isn't duplicating 27B in Pink.
"I'm sorry," he said, "I wasn't listening. Was that a yes or no to the
water?"
Kurt remained in his chair, almost motionless, except for the
itching-and-scratching routine. It had leaped again, this time onto
his scalp, and the twitching fingers followed. He wondered how long he
could keep this up without drawing blood.
"I'll just write down 'no answer' in your file," the Lab Coat Man
muttered, shuffling his way through the stack of paper, skipping the
yellows and pinks to find a blue. Locating the relevant box on a 43F,
he made a small 'X,' flipped to the front of the pile, and looked back
at the boy. He had stopped scratching his scalp and pushing his
strawberry-blond hair even more out of place, leaving his hands
motionless and his eyes fixed on the table top. Good, he thought; at
least he won't make himself bleed with all that scratching.
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