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The event occurred at one minute before midnight, Sunday,” O’Brien said.He clicked back to real-time display, and the fast-different: sharp, irregular peaks and valleys.“These are beta waves, quite extreme beta waves. The low, very fast oscillation indicates that the patient is concentrating on an external stimulus.”“What stimulus?” Ethan asked.“Something he sees, hears, feels.”“External? What can he see, hear, or feel in a coma?”“This isn’t the wave pattern of a man in a coma. This is a fully conscious, alert, forwarding stopped at 11:23:22, Sunday night. He speeded the data again in two quick spurts, until he reached 11:58:09.[360] “Less than a minute now.”Ethan found himself leaning forward in his chair.Shatters of rain clattered against the windowpanes, as though the wind, in wounded anger, had spat out broken teeth.One of the people at the other work stations had left the room.The remaining woman murmured into her phone. Her voice was soft, singsong, slightly spooky, as might be the voices that left messages on the answering machine that served Line 24.“Here,” said Dr. O’Brien.At 11:59, the lazy, variant delta waves began to spike violently into something
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