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Field Hospital

The Hospital Tent

The tent in Larracos where the war wounded were treated, and from which Louis stumbles at the end.

Story so far

Across the way from Carl in the last minutes on the ninth floor, Louis stumbled from the hospital tent holding his throat, badly hurt.

Juice Box had her arm on his shoulder outside the tent. She said something to him, and he said something back; she put her hands to her face and turned away, and Louis just stood there and watched her go.

Appearance

A canvas medical tent pitched among the ruins of Larracos, with wounded crawlers emerging under their own unsteady power.

Role

The war's casualty station, and the setting of Juice Box and Louis's silent parting.

Relationships

Louis — Stumbles out of it clutching his throat.
Juice Box — Says goodbye to Louis outside it.
Larracos — Set up within the besieged city.
Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 22
  • Newly built medical tent at the base, chosen over a saferoom because saferooms have strange rules about monitored unconsciousness.
Chapter 25
  • The Princess Posse's now-empty triage room, where Carl lands bleeding after escaping Houston's rifle.
Chapter 27
  • The tent Carl steps out of, blood-soaked, to find the base in chaos as the war begins.
Chapter 28
  • Hospitals built into the southern trench labyrinth alongside bunkers, traps, and fall-back positions.
Chapter 37
  • The crawler base's medical station, overrun during the paratrooper assault and evacuated under fire.
Chapter 90
  • Tent in the ruins where Imani and Juice Box examine Britney, and where the rescue party waits to depart.
Chapter 93
  • Where Mordecai plans to examine Louis and determine exactly what Epitome Tagg has become inside him.
Chapter 94
  • The crowded canvas tent at Larracos where Kiwi gives birth and Louis is sedated on the next cot over.
Chapter 96
  • The crawlers' medical tent, where Katia goes under and Louis is cut open in the same hour.
Chapter 97
  • The tent in Larracos where the war wounded were treated, and from which Louis stumbles at the end.
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