Across the street from the hospital, a black Maybach idled at the curb. The driver's window was rolled two-thirds of the way down. A large, well-defined hand dangled casually out the window, a cigarette pinched between long, coolly pale fingers. The scarlet tip glowed starkly in the dim light. The wind took half, each drag he took the other. The ember flared and faded in the breeze, much like his