Rumor at drills: back from the ER, monitor still on

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texture · 9 Nov YDAU, morning

When: 9 Nov YDAU, morning drills (reporting a return "last night," i.e. late 8 Nov).
What: Among the morning's grim sights (Penn absent amid troubling leg-rumors, Possalthwaite's bandaged nose), the squad passes along that "Otis P. Lord alleged to have come back from the emergency room at St. Elizabeth's last night with the Hitachi monitor over his head, still" — its removal, with the broken screen's glass teeth pointing at key parts of his throat, "apparently calling for the sort of esoteric expertise you have to fly in by private medical jet, according to Axford." Carried in the source text's own alleged/according-to register: rumor, not narratorial fact.