Sunset at Jaopraya

Chapter 23

The hospital room is small but very clean. There is one hospital bed in that room, other small doctor's equipment and medicine cabinets. As the doctor's assistant saw Kimhan walking in, he quickly salutes to the head engineer. Ta Pol went and hide behind Ta Bua and Aom. Kimhan talks fast in Japanese to the assistant, explaining the patient condition, so fast that Aom couldn't really understand it.

"Bua, what the hell are they gonna do to me?"

"How would I know" Ta Bua answer, annoy by his buddy question and try to push Ta Pol forward.

"You're the patient go stand in front"

"Bua, you coward, you're not my true friend!"

"Hey if you die, at least I can do your funeral"

"Liar! Where the hell are you gonna get the money to do that?"

"Don't fight! Come here!" Kimhan's voice startle the two old man.

"Pol, go! Don't hide behind me"

"We have to go together! Look we are tied to each other!"

Ta Bua mumble but still walk to Kimhan with his buddy. Kimhan untie both of them and point to the bed.

"Go to the bed!" Ta Pol push his buddy forward, "Not him! YOU!"

"Me?" Ta Pol tries to play innocent

"Yes, the needle still stuck in your arm, we have to incise it out"

"Incise? Wow...don't you think that's a bit much, can't we just try to squeeze it out?"

"No or else it will get infected, you shouldn't jerk your hand back like that"

"It's Bua's fault, he just freaking scream so it scare me"

"Just go on the bed"

Kimhan said like an adult dealing with little kid. All these time, the petite girl stand looking quietly with an emotionless face, but her eyes sparkle with laughter. The doctor's assistant look at the wound and whisper to Kimhan. The tall figure just nodded her head and thinking to herself before turning to Aom with suspicious look, so Aom walks closer to Kimhan.

"He said we have to incise it out, we can't just pull it out"

"That should be fine"

"There is one little problem...we don't have any anesthetic. We have to save those for major surgery"

"You mean..."

"For us, we never use any anesthetic for these little wound" Kimhan said with a worry voice.

Aom look over at the old man that is laying in the bed looking very uncomfortable,

"I don't know if he could take it"

"It won't hurt that much, we not going to slice it in that deep"

"I know your soldiers can take it, but for us..."

"But I'm telling we do not have any anesthetic in hand. We have to travel to the other side of the river into the city to get it. And even if we do that, I'm not sure they're going to give to us. The wound would get infected and be in a much worst condition by then"

"How would we tell him? He went all crazy when we just draw his blood out but this is a much bigger thing"

"Then we don't tell him, I'm gonna tie him to the bed and we just do it" Kimhan keeps a calm voice, like it's nothing important, "You take the other guy out and wait outside, but you have to not let him in here no matter what happen"