Transcript For Strip 2084

Panel 1
A series of vignettes of Otto doing scut-work for the refugee center. In the first one, he's holding a box and following an medical executive-type as they wind their way through a corridor packed with staff and patients in chairs and gurneys.
Caption: 'In the aftermath of Gran Raio Da Morte, as the deadly strike came to be known, more than 37,000 surviving individuals flooded the médicos and crisis centers.
Panel 2
With another orderly, Otto is stocking supplies on a robo-cart. A middle-manager type holding a screen is directing them.

Caption: 'Most of them had broken bones and burns of varying severity.
Caption: 'The beneficencia Mentes de Compaixão coordinated triage and treatments, employing both paid staff and volunteers.
Panel 3
Otto is securing a safety belt on a patient sitting in a hoverchair, his leg in a hi-tech cast.
Caption: 'On the first day, 2587 died before they could be treated.
Caption: 'Within 10 days, 25,000 were treated and made well enough to be sent home for rest.
Panel 4
Otto is serving a tray of food to an injured victim recuperating in a medi-bed. The victim is heavily bandaged, blinded; Otto guides his hand as he reaches for the food with his one whole arm.
Caption: 'The remainder were the most seriously injured, burned, battered and blinded.
Caption: 'Regeneration vats were in limited supply, and these had to wait in queue for their turn.
Caption: 'And Otto Sullivan was with them the whole way, being as helpful as possible.'
-- The Sullivan Chronicles, by Yvonne Clark

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