"270)}Yurts and the Land 290)}Yurts and the Land" "314)}Yurts and the Land 338)}Yurts and the Land" "355)}Yurts and the Land" "The UNF was devoting all its resources to tracking down the group that attacked its base." "But it's no simple matter to track helicopters that are flying at nap-of-the-earth altitude." "They say that an investigator from HQ's lnternal Audit Group is being dispatched here." "We lost a HAVWC in the Metazone temple operation." "Was it the right decision?" "Did anything improper take place?" "it's a voluntary investigation." "The L-T is worried that Command will try to make Lt. Nikkanen into a scapegoat." "A scapegoat?" "that would mean that the root cause for the Flag recovery operation's failure lies in the operation itself." "the General Staff Office." "So to evade responsibility..." "They're going to pin the blame on Lt. Nikkanen?" "!" "How can they do that?" "!" "I have no objections to everything going on the record." "huh?" "The L-T is mad?" "This might turn into a full-blown storm." "Can't say I blame her." "another problem was taking place in the medical room." "You're sending him back home?" "Is that safe?" "His wounds aren't so severe that he has to stay in bed." "The shock of combat seems to be the most pressing problem at this point." "The man who was hurt when caught in the crossfire during the previous day's battle steadfastly refused to accept treatment at the base." "the decision was made to send the nomad man back to his family." "I bet you didn't know this about Lt. Nikkanen." "He's a certified nurse." "I guess you really can't judge a book by its cover." "do they have a doctor out there? practicing traditional medicine." "This sounds kind of fishy." "Are you sure it's safe to leave him in that guy's hands?" "so I think so." "it's what the patient wants." "huh?" "That's how they make felt from sheep's wool." "Felt?" "The yurts are made out of that." "They hang up lots of layers of that across the exterior." "so yurts are made of wool... they might not survive." "so people age a lot faster than they do in the city." "you get these wide open skies. but I guess that's because they're used to digital cameras." "I've noticed some unsettling movements lately." "I thought it was a strange thing to do at a delicate time like this." "I took these at the old Subasci International Airport." "These are recon planes. there have been 28 flights in the past three days alone." "It wasn't just recon flight activity that had grown more active." "too." "Well?" "He took his pulse and examined him." "though." "They say that he is called Dr. Tson." "He says that you should go away now." "go away?" "we know where we're not wanted." "He says he wants IBH charts and heparin transfusion packs." "IBH charts?" "Wrong." "What I asked for was IVH catheters and heparin." "you can speak our language!" "But neither of those is necessary to treat this man." "They aren't for him." "I have another patient who needs them." "I understand." "I'll try to work something out with the Medical Division." "Hakan!" "these are for me?" "Maybe they're to thank you for helping that man." "I bet they are." "But he was hurt because of us in the first place." "don't you?" "the people here have such great faces." "but not until tomorrow morning." "It'll have to do." "It'll have to do"?" "Does that mean you'll be coming here again tomorrow morning?" "so is it okay if I stay here until tomorrow?" "All right. ...but it sounds like her stomach is hurting really badly." "it only hurts a little." "Would you mind looking after her until tomorrow morning?" "Just a little." "All right." "If I have to." "Official orders have come down for me to return." "The investigator is already waiting for me at the base." "Don't worry." "I'll come to pick you up tomorrow morning." "you hear?" "Nothing..." "Every web site I've tried has been quiet since this morning." "No luck." "I've gone to every last guy I know with ties to Pou." "Looks like something really did happen." "They've all gone into hiding like snakes hibernating in winter." "it seems like the flow of intel is being blocked somewhere." "maybe Shirasu managed to get away... if only for a fleeting instant." "the pain is just about gone." "I've gotten much better." "It doesn't hurt anymore." "I won't know that until I take a look at you." "so I'm responsible for you." "Step inside." "Pardon me..." "Are those medicinal herbs?" "That's right." "Carry this outside." "What about my diagnosis?" "There's nothing wrong with you." "I'm not some quack who would fall for an obvious lie like that." "carry this outside!" "you knew I was faking?" "then?" "I could use you for manual labor." "huh?" "How long have you been doing this?" "For a long time." "There isn't a single person around here who doesn't know me." "all better now!" "Let's go." "carry this." "what..." "House calls." "Namaste..." "She wants to know where you come from." "I'm from Tokyo." "She isn't doing well?" "Old-timers are tough." "but she doesn't complain at all." "We'll check in on her again on our way back this evening." "too?" "I treat it." "That stuff I was carrying was medicinal plants for cows?" "it's a yak!" "eat up." "Put that down and give me a hand." "sir." "eat!" "He doesn't want to." "I don't care if he doesn't!" "This is medicine!" "you've got to eat!" "Hold him!" "Hold him down!" "like it was holding its breath." "This stillness in the air had been there since before the cease fire." "we had yet to capture the dark shadow of legend in our viewfinders." "She's asking where you come from again." "ma'am." "I'm from Tokyo... what kinds of good things have happened to you in your life?" "she says." "Does she have any pictures?" "She says the images are burned into the inside of her eyes." "It's the same with pictures." "it becomes the past." "But having lots of happy pasts means that you've had a good life." "Dr. Tson?" "That's my father and me." "And the woman?" "She's the old woman you met today." "She was so pretty!" "and everyone ends up looking like that." "Pictures can be cruel sometimes." "That's not true!" "This is a lovely memory!" "Put that camera down and come eat." "You never sit still!" "my father and the old woman were childhood friends." "I don't know anything more specific than that." "But that old lady was so beautiful and full of life... she'd take your breath away." "She fought with her first husband and broke up with him. ...and she never saw him again." "huh?" "Yes!" " It's sheep's eyeball." " I know!" "maybe my father was in love with the old woman." "I inherited the job of caring for her." "I'm stuffed!" "Thanks for dinner!" "Are you paying attention?" "Dr. Tson? ...so I studied modern medicine in America." "that's why. ...so you had us completely fooled." "I had a blind devotion to the medical technology of advanced countries." "But what I saw while I was there was people who were being kept chained to this life by machines and medicine. ...then maybe what Ru Pou said was right all along." "Do you know Ru Pou?" "I used to be his chief physician." "You were?" "He was also the one who sent me to America." "He probably did it to show me that the slow death of the spirit was far more terrifying than the physical death of the body." "right?" "People each have their own places where they live." "and so on." "So each of them has their own way of living and of dying." "it should be just us old-timers who get sentimental over the past!" "You keep on snapping away!" "Keep taking pictures of everything you see around you!" "and you get all rugged on us!" "Where'd you get that cut?" "Um..." "Long story." "Where's Lt. Nikkanen?" "He's being questioned." "huh?" "We lift off in ten minutes." "Get ready to go." "everybody!" "Line up!" "where are you going?" "now!" "here we go!" "Cheese!" "I found out that the catheters and medicines Dr. Tson asked for are powerful tranquilizers used on patients in the final stages of cancer." "I don't think that old lady has very long to live." "but she decided against it. it becomes a thing of the past. ...ready and waiting for that next instant." "just one is enough." "0)}I want to see a beautiful light. 0)}..." "I don't need anything else." "0)}"Please don't let me be swallowed up by sadness." "0)}"Please let me have some purpose in my stride. 0)}...wish for a light to erase the shadows that have come upon us." "I'm pierced by the pain... 0)}...of losing a little bit of myself. 0)}...and I'm able to wait for the stars once again." "238)\cHFEFEFE\3cH080E03}Presented by Gray_Phantom{\fs24\fnBellGothic BT\b1} #Gray_Phantom @ rizon 238)\cHFEFEFE}Presented by Gray_Phantom{\fs24\b1\fnBellGothic BT} #Gray_Phantom @ rizon" "81)\fnBellGothic Blk BT\b0\3cH142308}Next Time 0 1 0 SDC + 1\h 81)\fnBellGothic Blk BT\b0}Next Time 0 1 0 SDC + 1\h one that borders on insubordination." "Shirasu finally begins to closely identify with the unit when they make their decision to fight alone."