Chapter 4
Alain took the paper from the doctor. It seemed to him that daPaz had written something longer than merely the brand name of a sleeping pill, so instead of sticking it immediately in his pocket he glanced at it to see what it said. He was expecting the traditional illegible scrawl of all doctors, but the note was clear, precise, and extremely troubling. Startled, he looked up at daPaz for confirmation, and the doctor gave him a slight nod to show that the message had indeed been the intended one.
A mass of thoughts crowded Alain’s mind simultaneously. The first priority was to establish the trustworthiness of the message. Ordinarily he would just have read the other’s mind, but daPaz was still wearing the interference cap, which made that impossible. Alain had acquired enough s
