The other five found Gerald on the floor sometime in what they called the morning. It wasn't really morning, only that the lights were back on, but it was the closest they'd come to morning in months, maybe longer. The interval between Duane's appearance and Gerald's was the longest yet, and the minute they--roused by Alan's shout of "Hey, look what I found!"--saw the new guy sprawled there, they all had the feeling that whatever was about to happen would happen soon.
To Paul, a veterinarian who had the most medical knowledge of the group, fell the task of reviving the new member of their little community. "Looks drugged, like everybody else," he said as, having found a ...