Part 11
You grab Frankie in a sudden movement that leaves his parents frozen in surprise. Summoning all your concentration in an effort not to disturb the child mentally you jaunt to the Lab with the little boy in your arms.
"Put him on the bio-bed, Jay!" TIM tells you urgently. You hear the whirring of TIM's equipment as you watch the small pale face. You can't hear Frankie's mind now, even with such close proximity. John and Paul both come up behind you and a moment later you feel Elena there too. They're all willing the little boy to survive and waiting tensely for TIM's pronouncement.
"I have managed to stabilise his condition." The biotronic computer declares suddenly, shocking you in the near silence of the Lab. "But he is close to a completely catatonic state. You must call out to him, draw him from his mind before it becomes completely closed."
John touches your arm and you all move quickly to the nearest of the Lab's link tables. You lay your hands on the white glowing surface and form a circle with your finger tips. As you do so your minds sink into an equally tight circle. You feel TIM's telepathic boosters supporting and enhancing your link even as TIM himself focuses on keeping the boy alive.
[Do you want to take the focus?] John asks you quickly. [You seem to have some kind of empathic link with Frankie. None of the rest of us even heard him except through you.]
You're not sure. It has, you realise, not been long since you went through the pain of breakout yourself. John is infinitely more experienced than you are at this sort of thing
Do you:
a) Take the focus?
b) Ask John to lead the link?
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