Free The Beginning Of Rain In December by Josephine Law

he?”
     
    “In a vaulted room in Lebna’s house with Lebna and Enlai.”
     
    “And what was occurring?”
     
    “Lebna wanted to free me, while Song and Enlai did not. Song was angry, upset with me, of the power that I may or may not have. I left him and my head hurt very horribly, I was nauseated, threw up and passed out.”
     
    “Was this the only time it occurred?”
“That I threw up and passed out yes.”
     
    “And not since then?”
     
    “No. I tried to do it again, but I couldn’t read anyone. Every time I tried I got a horrible headache and stopped.”
     
    “Okay, Rain,” Dr. D’Ares said. “I want to take your vitals now.”
     
    “Okay.”
     
    Dr. D’Ares stood, opening a couple of drawers in the room, taking out a stethoscope, a tongue depresser, a vision light and a blood pressure cuff.
     
    “Blood pressure, 99 over 79,” he said to Dr. Downs when he finished taking her blood pressure. “Eyes clear, extracolular clear, reactive to light, full, wide. Ear canals clear, no abnormalities…lungs clear to auscultation. Digestive sounds in all four abdominal quadrants, normal. Pulses bilateral feet equal and symmetric. Heart rate 70. Oxygen on room air 100%. Heart regular rate, no rubs, clicks or murmurs.” He stopped, placing his instruments on the bed. “Please stand. I want you to touch your index finger of each hand to your nose rapidly and alternate as fast as you can.”
     
    Rain did as he commanded.
     
    “Good, now, follow my finger with just your eyes, upper right, bottom right, upper left, bottom left,” he commanded. “Perfect. Now shrug both shoulders and then shrug your left shoulder and then your right shoulder.”
     
    She followed his commands.
     
    “Good, I want you to walk toe to heel from the left wall to the right wall,” he said. “Now, bend over, touch your toes as far as possible with straight arms. Good, perfect. Neuro intact. Very good.”
     
    Dr. Downs stood up collecting hers and Dr. D’Ares clipboards. “Very good, Ms. Rule, we shall take you for your MRI for a full body scan. Have you ever had one before?”
     
    “No, but I know what it entails.”
     
    “Alright,” she said they went through another door in the room that led down a long, well lit hallway with various other doors lining each side. From there they entered a small lobby area and to a door that stated radiology. Inside they were met with a small, Indian man, who smiled.
     
    “Hello, Ms. Rule, I am Howard, I will be in charge of the MRI. First do you have any metal in your body? In your hair? Mouth? Rings? Piercings?”
     
    “No,” she said. “Just the key on my wrist.”
     
    “You can place the key, here,” he said, giving her a small tray. “It’ll stay in the room with you, you will be the only one in the room, we will watch and run diagnostics through that room, and there is a window to watch you. You will be able to talk to me through the MRI but we ask that unless it is an emergency that you not. Please be quite still. You can keep your eyes open or close. The most important thing is to be still.”
     
    “How long will it take?”
     
    “Maybe three hours. Are you claustrophobic?” He asked as he began escorting her to the small platform of the MRI. “These are for you to wear,” he said, handing her earplugs. “It can get quite noisy. Once again, please stay as still as possible.”
     
    “Okay,” she said, lying down upon the platform while placing the ear plugs in her ears.
     
    He smiled. “It’ll be over sooner than you know it, just think of a sunny spot in the tropics somewhere, okay?”
     
    She smiled back, “Certainly.”
     
    “The doctors will be in the room for me. Sometimes you may hear my voice, sometimes you may hear their voice over the speaker inside the MRI, okay? You ready?”
     
    “I’m ready.”
     
    He nodded and pressed a button on the large machine and the table began to move into the cave of the MRI, a slight nervousness began