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Besides that, here and now we are over seven thousand light-years from Earth."
Both Hazel and Minerva were looking soberly at me, apparently awaiting my
reaction. I started to speak, then reviewed my thoughts. At last I said, "I have
only one more question. Teena?"
"No, you can't have any more waffles."
"Not waffles, dear. My question is this: May I have another cup of coffee?
This time with cream? Please?"
"Here-catch!" My request appeared on my lap table.
Hazel blurted, "Richard, it's true! All of it."
I sipped the fresh coffee. "Thank you, Teena; it's just right. Hazel my
love, I didn't argue. It would be silly of me to argue something I don't
understand. So let's move to a simpler subject. Despite these terrible diseases
you tell me I had, I feel brisk enough to leap out of bed and lash the serfs.
Minerva, can you tell me how much longer I must have this paralysis? You are my
physician, are you not?"
"No, Richard, I am not. I-"
"Sister is in charge of your happiness," Teena interrupted. "That's more
important."
"Athene is more or less right-"
"I'm always right!"
"-but she sometimes phrases things oddly. Tamara is chief of morale for
both Ira Johnson Hospital and the Howard Clinic ... and Tamara was here when you
needed her most, she held you in her arms. But she has many assistants, because
Director General Ishtar considers morale-well, happiness-central to both therapy
and rejuvenation
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