First message, sent today at 6:51 AM: Uh, hi. This is Dr. Sütrv. I'm a surgical resident down at the hospital, and I need to reach Dr. Kördann. The reason, uh... It's about ten to seven, Tuesday morning. Um... We've got a critical situation here that's, uh... Well, I've got a patient sliced open on the table. He's in stable condition on the machine, but... Well, I've found a strange device in his thoracic cavity. It's under the folds of the cytoplasmic ligature -- seems to be attached somehow to the deleroid nerve cluster. Uh... No idea what it is or what it's supposed to be doing, but... Um... It seems to be leaking a bluish fluid. A few cc's have gobbed up near the supinoial artery -- definitely not water-soluble. Anyway, the reason I'm calling you is, um... The device has your name and phone number engraved on it. And, uh... Well, I don't know quite how to put this, but... Well, it looks like it might be a custom unit. You know... Homemade. I mean... I'm not implying that it's unapproved or anything. I'm sure it was installed under established protocol. But since it has your name on it, I just thought you should know. I'll call the service to have you paged. We're at extension 7993.

Next message ... 7:11 AM: Dr. Sütrv again for Dr. Kördann. Um... It's critical now. That device is smoking. We've tried cooling it with saline, but it's hot. I want to yank it, but the way it's tied into the deleroids... Dr. Gnuundärd from Neurology says she's never seen anything like it. Please advise. Extension 7993.

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Next message ... 7:59 AM: Dr. Sütrv again. Disregard my previous messages.