Wells’ Slow Recovery
Wells continues to slowly build up his strength prior to leaving from the house he has now been confined to for 13 days.
Toni’s diary chronicles an epic journey from Queen Anne’s Mansions to Bryanston Square in the quest for more equipment and medicines. She and Grace Stewart undertook the journey alone. In normal days, a round trip of 6.5km would take about an hour and a half. This journey took an entire day.
Elsewhere in London, Morant continues to pester Marie Curie to provide him with weapons, even as the flood of refugees passing along the escape routes he and Brown established appears endless.
Woken by the lookouts going on shift. I hate Mondays.
We are now a centre for #GasMask and #Wireless construction. @LizCadbury and @MilliFawcett are communicating regularly by #Wireless. #WeHavePlans #Organisation
@GraceHarwoodStewart and I are now organising the 8th floor as a ‘proper’ #Hospital. We are above any #BlackSmoke and we have #GasMasks
Today, we plan to make our way to St Mary’s dispensary for women in Bryanston Square. @LizDispenGarrett did not survive #BlackSmoke #Sadness #Loss but we have hopes that the #Dispensary has #Medicines #Equipment
Note to self: #GasMask in #Pockets of #DividedSkirts Also, take some of @LizCadbury’s #HighEnergySnacks #Apprehension #DeepBreath
Leaving now. Will #MakeNotes when possible.
Marie Curie has discovered that a new hospital has been established at Queen Anne’s Mansions by the NUWSS, not far from St James Park Station.
At Waterloo station, refugees are still pouring in.
On the 13th day Wells spends his time drinking more water, dozing and thinking of vague impossible plans of escape. He dreams of horrible phantasms, of the death of the curate, or of sumptuous dinners; but, asleep or awake, he feels a keen pain to drink again and again.
Slowly Wells has become aware that the light that came into the scullery is no longer grey, but red. To his disordered imagination it seems the colour of blood.
Finally reached #BryastonSquare. Collapsed on top floor of #StMarysDispensary. #HowWillWeMakeItBack #GasMasksWork #RedWeed #WillWriteMoreLater
We have no heat gun, but have found some bottle rockets. Therefore, I give Marie two barrels of Gunpowder, so she can make more, but make her promise not to blow herself up.
Left 0830 as planned. So much #redweed that we had to cut our way through. #BuckinghamPalace covered in #redweed
#Martian in #HydePark. Spent an hour hiding. It just stood there, then after an hour or so, walked away. #Terrified #BreathHold #RedWeed #Martian #Shot a cannister when a flock of geese flew past #BlackSmoke
#GasMask works. Had to don it and wait for #BlackSmoke to disperse. Took ages. In the end we used it for #Cover, and crawled in our #GasMasks into Park St. Too afraid to move fast. Had to keep watering #GasMask #SoThirsty #HackTheWeed #Exhausted
#RedWeed covering everything. So hard to move fast. #Crawling #Cutting #Falling #KneesHurt
Reached #StMarysDispensary at last and collapsed on top floor. Rested, then searched for #AllTheThings. Used some to bandage our #Knees #Holes in my #DividedSkirts
Filled our #Sacks with #Medicines #Surgical equipment #Anaesthetics #Antiseptics #Bandages. #SoHeavy
Trip back not as bad. #RedWeed already cut, but beginning to regrow. #HowFastCanItGrow?
#Filthy #Exhausted #HadAWash #GotTheStuff
@LizCadbury concerned #Food is getting low, but thanks to the #Tanks on the roof, we have plenty of water
Weird sounds in the sky tonight. Could it be a #FlyingMachine? Do the #Martians #Fly as well? #GraceHarwoodStewart and I saw the lights as we passed #BuckinghamPalace