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Holly’s head was cobwebbed with sleep. Only the dream of coffee lured her
from her sleeping bag. The barista-cum-chef in charge of the breakfast tent
at the quaintly named Boorowa Music Festival had her double-shot, flat,
white coffee in his hand when she reached the counter.
“You’re a life saver, Pedro.” Almost grazing her nose against the rim of
the cup, she absorbed the scent of a fresh brew. “And a master of the bean.”
“Food?” A talented volunteer, Pedro grinned at her ritual, his wink a
promise he’d reserved a warm bread roll and banana for her. At her nod, he
handed them over.
“Thanks.” Senior medic at the three-day festival, Holly had been
ministering to party-hardened fans at four forty-five this morning. She’d
welcomed the security backup when the final patient, a boozy bruiser with a
stubbed toe, had wanted to hang around.
“You’re the last crew in.” Pedro returned to tending the bubbling pot on
his stove, the ingredients in the Thai pumpkin soup a delicate, spicy
backbeat to his sweet Arabica bean brew. He flipped his sound system to
maximum-decibel heavy metal band AC:DC.
Holly winced, whispering to herself. “You’ll be deaf by thirty.”
The distorted guitars were a shocking contrast to the cruisy folk that had
headlined the regional festival. Ear-shattering, rather than loud, was Holly’s
verdict, permissible only because the bulk of the five-thousand fans had
broken camp overnight and not-so-silently departed. Dusty, desolate fields
with blue portable toilets extending in forlorn lines testified to a near-empty
campsite.
Taking a table at the side, she let the first sip of coffee work its magic
on her body and brain. “Mmmm,” she moaned.
A caffeine dependency was borderline mandatory when sleepdeprivation topped the risk list in your job description. Holly offered thanks
to all the gods in the universe, took another sip, and closed her eyes to
savour the hum of wellbeing stretching to her toes. Humanity’s continuum
of vice included infidelity and murder. Caffeine addiction was the smallest
sin. A vice she’d keep. She dunked a hunk of bread in her coffee, watching
as the dough absorbed the liquid. When it was close to disintegrating in her
fingers, she popped it into her mouth. Maybe that counted as another vice?
My last shift for this festival. Her gut tightened. Eight months since her
last nursing shift on emergency surgery. Ten years in nursing, the last two in
emergency at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra hospital. Drawing in a deep
breath, she then exhaled on a count from eight to zero as she’d been taught,
consciously blocking out the memory of Donna’s murder in a workplace
dedicated to healing.
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