State of Fear: A Novel by Michael Crichton

Author:Michael Crichton [Crichton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Thrillers
ISBN: 9780062227218
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 2013-02-05T06:00:00+00:00

The LTSI washrooms weren’t anything to write home about, but Sarah and Kenner dried off with paper towels and found some warm coveralls, and Sarah began to feel better. Staring in the mirror, she saw that she’d lost two inches of hair around her left side. The ends were ragged, black, twisted.

“Could have been worse,” she said, thinking Ponytails for a while.

Kenner tended to her shoulder, which he said was just a first-degree burn with a few blisters. He put ice on it, telling her that burns were not a thermal injury but were actually a nerve response within the body, and that ice in the first ten minutes reduced the severity of the burn by numbing the nerve, and preventing the response. So, if you were going to blister, ice prevented it from happening.

She tuned out his voice. She couldn’t actually see the burned area, so she had to take his word for it. It was starting to hurt. He found a first-aid kit, brought back aspirin.

“Aspirin?” Sarah said.

“Better than nothing.” He dropped two tablets in her hand. “Actually, most people don’t know it, but aspirin’s a true wonder drug, it has more pain-killing power than morphine, and it is anti-inflammatory, anti-fever—”

“Not right now,” she said. “Please.” She just couldn’t take another of his lectures.

He said nothing. He just put on the bandage. He seemed to be good at that, too.

“Is there anything you’re not good at?” she said.

“Oh sure.”

“Like what? Dancing?”

“No, I can dance. But I’m terrible at languages.”

“That’s a relief.” She herself was good at languages. She’d spent her junior year in Italy, and was reasonably fluent in Italian and French. And she’d studied Chinese.

“And what about you?” he said. “What are you bad at?”

“Relationships,” she said. Staring in the mirror and pulling at the blackened strands of her hair.

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