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like this was used to keep you from hurting while you were so ill." I made my
usual brilliant comment. "Huh?"
We had come outdoors from the central building of the hospital and were
facing a small park flanked by two side wings, a U-shaped building. This court
was rich with flowers and greenery and the middle of it was a pool that just
"happened" to be the right casual shape to fit those flower beds and paths and
bushes. Hazel stopped at a bench facing the pool in the shade of a tree. We sat
down, let the bench adjust itself to us, and watched people in the pool-as much
fun as swimming, almost.
Hazel said, "What do you recall of your arrival here?"
"Not much. I was feeling pretty rocky-that wound, you know." ("That wound"
was now a hairline scar, hard to find- I think I was disappointed.)
"She-Tamara?-Tammy was looking me in the eyes and looking worried. She said
something in another language-"
"Galacta. You'll leam it; it's easy-"
"So? Anyhow she spoke to me and that's the last I remember. To me, that was
last night and I woke up this morning, and now I leam that it was not last night
but God knows when and I've been crashed the whole time. Disturbing. Hazel, how
long has it been?"
"Depends on how you count it. For you, about a month."
"They've kept me knocked out that long? That's a long time to keep a man
sedated
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