Raji, Book Three

12. The Sea of Tranquility 2.0 Book One: Exploration

13. The Sea of Tranquility 2.0 Book Two: Invasion

14. The Sea of Tranquility 2.0 Book Three

15. The Sea of Tranquility 2.0 Book Four

16. Sea of Sorrows, Book Two of The Rod of God

17. Do Not Resuscitate

18. Hannibal’s Elephant Girl, Book Two

19. The Rod of God, Book One

20. Henry IX

21. Qubit’s Incubaator

22. Casper’s Game

Coming Soon

23. Dragonfly vs Monarch: Book Three

24. The Journey to Valdacia

25. Still Waters Run Deep

26. Ms Machiavelli

27. Ariion XXIX

28. The Last Mission of the Seventh Cavalry Book 2

29. Hannibal’s Elephant Girl, Book Three

See the end of this book for details about the others

Contents

Chapter One (#ulink_a8001e23-1be3-559b-b963-5b57e655cda9)

Chapter Two (#ulink_392a6b64-e844-5994-9169-438913c56c1b)

Chapter Three (#ulink_f78e64fa-6e7a-58a6-be9c-4e11cbaa6a27)

Chapter Four (#ulink_b16cadce-94c6-5472-b800-08a6d81b6458)

Chapter Five (#ulink_fba350ad-3052-5127-97fe-cfde9f592ad5)

Chapter Six (#ulink_208fed39-8681-5d9e-9fdd-d164d92caeba)

Chapter Seven (#ulink_b4f21e75-35f3-53e2-8840-42708a845756)

Chapter Eight (#ulink_33683c2c-7e6d-5374-90dc-661988dae150)

Chapter Nine (#ulink_6b8f73ce-d52e-5d00-83e8-d911c596ca27)

Chapter Ten (#ulink_986080c0-1d7a-524b-9eac-af8050e2d233)

Chapter Eleven (#ulink_53e059ff-9f75-5fad-8dab-e520d203bcfb)

Chapter Twelve (#ulink_ad99af3a-e3e5-574d-9861-ba0c08092d46)

Chapter Thirteen (#ulink_82eed49f-7bf8-5ad5-8562-48b7e921dafc)

Chapter Fourteen (#ulink_882e47b8-ed74-5a46-a146-ee0cc885a20d)

Chapter Fifteen (#ulink_a7d7365b-9fe8-5509-aa11-a810d7b2a97b)

Chapter Sixteen (#ulink_a0debda1-7565-5ca9-ad95-dc30b2149443)

Chapter One

Raji

In the fall of 1932, Fuse and I walked through the near-deserted campus of Theodore Roosevelt University, in Richmond, Virginia.

We were third-year students in the medical school and would have been at the top of our class–had there been a class. Two days earlier, the two of us sat in the rigid wooden chairs in front of Dr. Octavia Pompeii’s desk. She was chancellor of the medical school, and she looked as if she carried the weight of the entire university on her tiny shoulders. Her beautiful red hair was thinning, and during the past two years, streaks of gray had crept into the curls from her temples. Dark circles saddened her eyes.

Dr. Pompeii took a deep breath and let out a sigh. “Raji, Fuse, I have bad news.”

Fuse and I glanced at each other. We knew the university was in dire financial straits, just as all the schools were. Faculty and students had been drifting away ever since the crash of 1929.

“We’re closing the medical school,” Dr. Pompeii said.

“Oh, no,” I said. “Why?”

She toyed with a yellow pencil for a moment. “We’ve lost seventy percent of our funding and enrollment for next semester is next to nothing.”

Fuse was quiet, but I knew he was in shock, just as I was. We had talked about this very event over the past semester, but I don’t think we really believed it would happen. No one spoke for a while.

“Dr. Pompeii,” Fuse finally said. “What will you do?”

My old pal Fuse, always thinking of others first.

“Strangely enough,” she said, “I’m going back to school.”