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at Adrian.
She appealed to Dr Elliot. "Some kind of residual activity?"
"I don't know," he said in a shaken tone.
"What's Adrian saying?" Judge Hayward asked.
"I've no idea, I don't speak German," Douglas said. "My God, neither does
Adrian."
Judge Hayward gave him a sharp look, then turned to Dr Elliot. "Find
someone who does, and fast."
"Not necessary," Barbara Johnson told her. She took some headsets from the
desk and handed them round. Douglas slipped his on as she voicelined the
computer terminal for a translation program. The earplugs muted another of
Adrian's invectives, then the translator cut in.
"...bastard Yankees. No better than fucking Jews. Queers and women,
nothing more, we'll shit on you yet. Your President Roosevelt is dead,
from shame, from the pox- "
Douglas voicelined the headset to stand-by mode, an unnerving chill
blossoming inside his head.
"All right," Judge Hayward said. "I want best guesses, and I want them
now."
"It's quite obvious Softlight doesn't work," Harvey Boden said. "It
doesn't wipe memories, it simply jumbles them up."
"There was no primary brainwave activity for two minutes," Barbara Johnson
said stubbornly.
Harvey Boden shrugged. "People recover from comas. Weeks and months spent
like a vegetable, then they're up and talking as if nothing had happened."

Douglas knew what Boden was doing. The Prosecution Officer wanted Adrian
dead. For real.
It's obviously not just my skull those two girls are haunting.
"I can't even pretend to understand what's happened," Douglas said as
Barbara Johnson and Dr Elliot started whispering together. "And you're
certainly not in a position to give qualified neurological opinions,
Harvey. We'll need a complete assessment made before any decisions are
taken. And we certainly shouldn't decide anything in haste."
Dr Elliot nodded in agreement with something Barbara Johnson said, and
faced the judge. "I believe we should consider regression as a logical
explanation for this situation."
"Regression?" Douglas asked in confusion.
Harvey Boden gave him a contemptuous look. "Past lives, Douglas. People
thinking they used to be Napoleon or George Washington, that kind of
thing."
"There have been documented cases," Dr Elliot said. "Under hypnosis,
subjects have related a wealth of details concerning their previous
existence, details they couldn't possibly have known without extensive
research."
"Rubbish," Harvey Boden said.
Douglas was inclined to agree, but that would be offering Adrian up to
TRUE JUSTICE. "Are you saying this German personality popped up out of
nowhere to fill Adrian's empty brain?" he asked Dr Elliot.
"Yes. A German from the Second World War, judging by the reference to