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"Please..." The boy's Adam's apple, locked by the electromagnetic collar, rolled as his underdeveloped vocal cords emitted a cracked quiver, "Hospital... My mother needs..."
Richard suddenly let out a hyena-like laugh, his subcutaneous artificial voice box vibrating with eerie low frequencies: "Do you know why I chose your mother's attending physician?" His thick fingers skimmed over the quantum tablet, calling up the electronic medical record from the New York Presbyterian Hospital, "Patients with advanced renal failure are perfect excuses for medical accidents—just like the 'drowning accident' of the siblings from Brooklyn last week."
