"Eddings, David - Regina's Song V2.0" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

"That's impossible to say right now. I'm hoping that
your visit will help her start regaining her memory-bits
and pieces of it, anyway. I'm certain that she won't
remember what happened to her sister. That's been
totally blotted out. Let's keep this visit fairly short, and
we'll want it light and general. I have her mildly sedated,
and I'll watch her very closely. If she starts getting
agitated, we'll have to cut the visit short."
"Would hypnotism bring her out of it?" I asked him.
"Possibly, but I don't think it'd be a good idea right
now. Her amnesia's a hiding place, and she needs that
for the time being. There's no way to know how long
she'll need it. There have been cases where an
amnesiac never recovers his memory. He lives a normal
life-except that he has no memory of his childhood.
Sometimes, his memory's selective. He remembers this,
but doesn't remember that. We'll have to play it by ear
and see just how far she's ready to go."
"Let's go see her," Inga said abruptly.
Dr. Fallon nodded and led us out of his office and
down a hallway. Renata's room was quite large and
comfortable-looking. Everything about it was obviously
designed to suggest a calm stateliness. The carpeting
was deep and lush, the furniture was traditional, and the
window drapes were a neutral blue. A hotel room in that
class would probably cost a hundred dollars a night.
Renata was sitting in a comfortable reclining chair by
the window, placidly looking out at the rain writhing
down to sweep the lake.
"Renata," Dr. Fallon said gently, "Your parents have
come to visit you, and they've brought a friend."
She smiled rather vaguely. "That's nice," she replied in
a fuzzy sort of voice. Dr. Fallon's definition of "mildly
sedated" might have differed from mine by quite a bit. It
looked to me as if Renata was tranked to the eye-balls.
She looked rather blankly at her parents with no sign of
recognition.
Then she saw me. "Markie!" she squealed. She
scrambled to her feet and came running across the
room to hurl herself into my arms, laughing and crying at
the same time. "Where have you been?" she
demanded, clinging to me desperately. "I've been lost
here without you." I held her while she cried, and I
stared at her parents and Dr. Fallon in absolute
bafflement. It was obvious from their expressions that
they had no more idea of what was going on than I did.
FIRST MOVEMENT
CHAPTER ONE
What's happening here?" Les Greenleaf demanded,
after Renata had been sedated into a peaceful slumber