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“He’s alive” The doctor, a cool-eyed man with saffron skin, continued to en deprivation, and soe as a result If we keep him alive, it’s correctable”

“Are you going to keep him alive?”

“That’s e’re here” He slipped his memo pad back into the pocket of his lab coat “His chances are good Another fewthere, he wouldn’t have had any chance We’ve co the dead back to life still eludes us”

“When can I talk to him?”

“I can’t say”

“Hazard a guess”

“He may be functional by toe the exact extent of the brain dae It may be several days, or weeks, before he’s capable of answering any but the e, to reroute if you will, and we can help that process along But it takes time”

“I want to know the minute he can talk”

“I’ll make sure you’re informed Now, I have patients to see”

“Lieutenant” Clark stepped up “This is the nurse you wanted to see”

“Ore “Talk to me”

“I had no idea he meant to try self-termination I wouldn’t have believed he was capable of it, physically I mean He eak as a baby”

“Ayou”

She nodded, relaxed her defensive stance “I was in there for a routine check of his vitals He was conscious, and he told et a lot of that, even froitated, and asked for you by name Said I was to tell you he wanted to confess”

“To what?”