"Orson Scott Card - Ender's Saga 01 - Ender's Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Card Orson Scott)

"Not the whole thing! You'll stop his heart."

Ender felt a needle enter his back just above the neck of his shirt. It
burned, but wherever in him the fire spread, his muscles gradually unclenched.
Now he could cry for the fear and pain of it.

"Are you all right, Andrew?" the nurse asked.

Andrew could not remember how to speak. They lifted him onto the table. They
checked his pulse, did other things; he did not understand it all.

The doctor was trembling; his voice shook as he spoke. "They leave these
things in the kids for three years, what do they expect? We could have switched
him off, do you realize that? We could have unplugged his brain for all time."

"When does the drug wear off'?" asked the nurse.

"Keep him here for at least an hour. Watch him. If he doesn't start talking in
fifteen minutes, call me. Could have unplugged him forever. I don't have the
brains of a bugger."

***

He got back to Miss Pumphrey's class only fifteen minutes before the closing
bell. He was still a little unsteady on his feet.

"Are you all right, Andrew?" asked Miss Pumphrey.

He nodded.

"Were you ill?"

He shook his head.

"You don't look well."

"I'm OK."

"You'd better sit down, Andrew."

He started toward his seat, but stopped. Now what was I looking for? I can't
think what I was looking for.

"Your seat is over there," said Miss Pumphrey.

He sat down, but it was something else he needed, something he had lost. I'll
find it later.

"Your monitor," whispered the girl behind him.