White, James - Sector General 08 - The Genocidal Healer by The Genocidal Healer

Author:The Genocidal Healer [Healer, The Genocidal]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science fiction, Fantasy, General, Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Magic, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Criticism, Non-Classifiable, Biography & Autobiography, History, Modern, Science fiction., Modern - General, History: World, History - General History, Literature: history & criticism, Dictionaries, Reference, gtt, World history, Bibliographies & Indexes, History: World & General, Bio-bibliography, Science-fiction, Semiotics & Theory
ISBN: 9780810849389
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-01-21T15:40:49+00:00

Chapter 14

MORE than an hour passed before Lioren returned to the Nurses' Station to find Seldal, its atrophied wings twitch- ing and feathers ruffled in the Nallajim sign of anger, awaiting him.

"Nurse tells me that you ordered the voice recorders switched off," it said before Lioren could speak, "and the earlier conversations with the patient to be erased. You exceeded your authority, Lioren, which is a bad habit of yours that I thought you had given up after the Cromsag business. But you have spoken with the patient at greater length than all of the medical staff combined since its arrival. What did it say to you?"

Lioren was silent for a moment, then he said, "I cannot tell you exactly. Much of the information is personal and I have not yet decided what can and cannot be divulged."

Seldal gave a loud, incredulous cheep. "This patient must have given you information that will help me in its treatment. I cannot order a member of your department to reveal psychosen-sitive information about another entity, but I can request O'Mara to order you to do so."

"Senior Physician," Lioren said, "whether it was the Chief Psychologist or any other authority my response would have to be the same."

The Hudlar nurse had moved away so as to absent itself and avoid embarrassing its department head by overhearing an argument that entity was losing.

"May I assume that I still have your permission to continue visiting the patient?" Lioren asked quietly. "It is possible that I might be able to obtain information arrived at by observation and deduction and the detection of facts, material of nonper-sonal nature about itself or its species which would assist you. But great care is needed if it is not to take offense, because it places great importance on the contents of its mind and the words used to reveal it."

Seldal's feathers were again lying like a bright and unruffled carpet around its body. "You have my permission to continue visiting. And now I presume you have no objection to me talking to my own patient?''

"If you tell it that the speech recorders will remain switched off," Lioren said, "it might talk to you."

As Seldal departed the Hudlar nurse returned to its position on the monitors. Quietly, it said, "With respect, Lioren, the Hudlar organ of hearing is extremely sensitive and cannot be turned off other than by swathing it in a bulky muffling device, the need for which was not foreseen in this ward and so it was not available to me."

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