Seattle — Bruce

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BISHOP — JOHN

The first raid was successful — which is not surprising. Although Boardwalk had defenses, the satellite caves did not. Unless they wanted them and that was discouraged. So a Bishop County California sheriff knocked on the Bishop dialysis cave and was let in.

Peritoneal dialysis — where you inject your abdomen with distillate — can be practiced at home by patients, so what our caves are doing should not be considered practicing medicine. Unless eating, discharge, insulin injections, and treating wounds are considered ‘practicing medicine’. Even taking a splinter out involved a needle when my mother did it for me as a child. Yes, our technique is different from peritoneal dialysis, but the results are similar… only better. And, finally, a doctor prescribed the patient as getting hemodialysis. We are just a ‘pop up’ clinic for it.

The Bishop sheriff was not interested in any of those details though, and decided to jail Phil and Brian, the vampire and human running the Bishop cave. Things were about to get very interesting.

From Phil’s description, Phil and Brian called John at WilmerHale from jail. I had given out his direct number to anyone in the satellites.

“Hi… John?”

“Yes, speaking”

“My name is Phil, and Mark told us to call you if we had any issues with the law”

“Mark Fussell?”

“Yes. Well… we are having issues with the law. We are in jail in

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