He wondered briefly, though, how to deal with it at the morning meal.
What if he did dream—should he simply tell his family unit, as he did so often, anyway, that he hadn’t?
That would be a lie. Still, the final rule said... well, he wasn’t quite ready to think about the final rule on the page.
The restriction of medication unnerved him. Medication was always available to citizens, even to children, through their parents.
When he had crushed his finger in the door, he had quickly, gasping into the speaker, notified his mother;
she had hastily requisitioned relief-of-pain medication which had promptly been delivered to his dwelling.
Almost instantly the excruciating pain in his hand had diminished to the throb which was, now, all he could recall of the experience.
Re-reading rule number 6, he realized that a crushed finger fell into the category of “unrelated to training.”
So if it ever happened again—and he was quite certain it wouldn’t; he had been very careful near heavy doors since the accident!
he could still receive medication. The pill he took now, each morning, was also unrelated to training.
So he would continue to receive the pill. But he remembered uneasily what the Chief Elder had said about the pain that would come with his training.
She had called it indescribable. Jonas swallowed hard, trying without success to imagine what such pain might be like, with no medication at all.
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