Chapter9 The dream started, as it always did, with Maggie lying on a hard cot in a tiny room.

They are growing older, and sorer, after years on hard cots, and now have no health coverage.

Remo sat down on the hard cot suspended from the wall and remembered the last cell he had been in more than a decade before.

Tucker lay on the hard cot, a single dirty army blanket wrapped around him, and shivered.

An hour later, he was lying on his back on a very hard cot, listening to her even breathing.

All Number Two got was a hard cot made out of a simple rectangular polygon.

They returned to the station and he went to bed on a hard cot in that narrow upper room.

The row of hard, narrow cots was gone, and the ceiling too low.

Or am I going to find two hard, narrow cots in there and a hair shirt laid out on each?

After a few minutes of that, and no more, she sat up on the hard cot and grimly considered her situation.