of Hugh, and it was a controlled expression, was no longer spasmodic. Ubi shivered and swallowed, because he recognized something from Hugh in that face which was no more a face of Hugh. For a moment Ubi seemed to see his son. Then Frances dropped Hugh from her embrace, and she, not noticing that expression of fear in the face of Hugh, gave him a kiss on the forehead and left the room.
Soon after this Ubi also left the hospital, he no longer liked to stay in the hospital and have to face all eyes there. He was there as needed, of course, but he had avoided going to the Hugh's room, because every time he did it, sharpened the looks of all, whether in person or by cameras. He had seen the graph of the traffic cameras access in the room of Hugh and realized that when he went to the room, fired the graph, indicating that millions of people became interested in that scene. So, this had made Ubi pass to avoid the Hugh's room. Ubi knew that would never have privacy. Ubi would have to expect as long as necessary to Hugh gets better as normally and have hope that nothing bad comes up for him, wait and wait for just it.
Anne visited Ubi at home in the afternoon on that day.
- Did you see the meeting of Frances with Hugh over the Internet? - Ubi was just wondering.
- Yes I did. - Anne replied, before she even sit on the sofa at room.
- What about? - Ubi stretched it.
- So... I think you're in big trouble. I think this woman will not accept the reality of transplantation. And it is easy to understand, isn't it?
- I do not see why.
- How to know which of you two is the owner of a human being that no one else can actually tell who or what has become - Anne said looking into the eyes of Ubi. I think if seen by an optical of size or weight, you're the loser. The brain is smaller and lighter than the rest of the body.
The statement of Anne was said with harshness and coldness. Ubi was confused when looked at her, he did not understand if she was mocking, or if she had heard it somewhere and was just playing back.
- Are you nervous, right? - Ubi took the hand of Anna.
- I saw Frances embracing Hugh, or her son, I'm confused. I know he's Hugh, I think he is, but... when I see images, I can’t convince myself that is Hugh. And when Frances embraced him, it seemed that there wasn't Hugh, who... I do not know. I closed my eyes and tried to see Hugh into my memories, and it was very difficult.
- Anne, Anne - Ubi said patting the hand of Anne - Come on! Where's that girl who said that loved Hugh, who knew that he was the love of her life? The worst is over. I was not sure that Hugh would have any chance of living up, so I said to you to forget him. But now, now he has a real chance to live. You know, many times during the day I feel suffocated, smothered by the looks of the people, suffocated when I try to understand what I did. And I'm afraid, terrified of what comes next day. Finally, I feel a great longing for the life I had before that accident, I miss my wife. Because this transplantation of Hugh, I not had time to mourn all who died in my life. Since the accident it seems that my life was... unreal. Almost I am getting no sleep. Things around me seem to have lost color, lost their meaning. I feel like a ghost walking at the living world. I hope that I have actually done something right with Hugh. My God! I really hope.
Ubi then realized that when he trying to console Anne actually turned out to be totally exposed. He smiled at Anne
- I think we both deserve an ice cream, right? - Ubi suggested friendly.
- Okay - Anne replied, not very excited. How do you know is Hugh who...
Anne had shown her discomfort because she couldn't feel the meanings of Hugh in his new body. She wanted a kind of proof that her beloved Hugh was in that body. The uncertainty bothered her a lot. Ubi could only distract her, but this is not a solution. It would be a problem that Anne would have to solve by herself. They ate the dessert in the kitchen, without speaking, both looked tired, and knew they have nothing to console each other. Ubi asked things about her, knowing her better. He spoke more about Hugh. Ubi increasingly sympathized with her.
Once Anne left, Ubi returned to sit in the room and face his problems and concerns, had indeed been very good to talk with Anne. He lamented his life, he wondered how much he would be happy now if that car´s accident had not happened. He and his wife were gathered in this room, and Hugh and Anna could be embraced on the sofa. Ubi never put himself in the choices of Hugh, he never even thought to decide something by Hugh. Ubi once thought that Hugh was not a child anymore, no longer dependent on his protection, he could and should live his own life, making his successes and mistakes. But now, sitting alone in the room, he would like very much if Hugh had chosen Anne to his girlfriend. Ubi learned to like this girl who showed so clearly have a great love for his son. He covered his eyes with one hand and stood still in silence.
Ubi awoke from his torpor. An alarm warned him that it had reached an urgent email. The official emblem that appeared on the screen pointed that it was not good news. To summarize it was a warning that announced that Frances had come in court with a request that Hugh must be handed over to her and to establish responsibility for the hospital as well as Ubi for the transplant performed. Ubi was visibly accused to overcome barriers of genetic and guilty of an unethical comportment, so he must be removed as doctor responsible for Hugh treatment immediately.
The next day Ubi enters the Hugh's room and instantly have an uncomfortable feeling because the eyes of the ghosts. He looks for the cameras, even with difficulty seeing them, due to the small size of them, like flies on the wall, but they film it all and expose everything that happens here in this room and playing these images on the Internet. Ubi is approaching the bed of Hugh who is asleep. Ubi sits in a chair that is very close to that bed. He looks to Hugh, and has a strange feeling about the new body of Hugh. Recognizes that it will always be weird to look at Hugh, because he will have to use his intelligence to understand what he actually sees. It's not instinctive yet.
Ubi had to struggle to hold the hand of Hugh and when he did, he had an indefinable feeling. Hugh's eyes opened and turned to him, until Hugh's head turned slightly to better visualize Ubi, Ubi felt satisfied, because this was a direct demonstration that the Hugh's brain was making progress to take control of the new body, there was almost a tuning in this control of that body.
Ubi tried to express a smile. But Hugh's eyes did not show any recognition. It was precisely this recognition that Ubi hoped for, that he wanted so much. It would be wonderful if Hugh had recognized him. Here's a strange situation, Ubi with his eyes could not recognize Hugh, but Ubi longed to Hugh with his new eyes had recognized him. Ubi held the hand of Hugh strongly.
“... if I found another life on another planet... I would try looking in its eyes, if it had...”
//strange~land/cosmic~adventures/meetings/
“... what is the value in recognizing humans? They must be recognized as a father, another as a mother, another as friend, and another as an undesirable person, and so on. History is needed. You need to note a history to the objects that you recognized, otherwise there is nothing. Everything has to have a history...”
//Aprg/psychology/AI/contribution/
Ubi spending some time just there looking at Hugh and finally got up. There was no sign of recognition by Hugh. Ubi knew it would take a long time for Hugh could express himself with his face and especially with speech. Ubi passed his hand over Hugh's forehead.
Coming out of that room Ubi still felt a strange feeling for have touched the hand of Hugh. He looked at the palm of his hand and rubbed his hands together, strongly pressed against each other.
Hugh was daily subjected to therapeutic exercises however he still could not even stand up.
In a day when Hugh was alone in the room, he stared at a little green light flashed on electronic surveillance device that was distant from his bed, it was a kind of electronic nose picking that air of that room and examined the molecules that compose, getting a huge amount of information. After a while fixing the tiny bulb green, he began to slide his body and fell out of bed,
was not a great height, then turned back toward the little light, looked for a while and began to crawl on belly toward it, right away, he crawled on knees for rest of the way. Ubi at another room was distracted by something else and at this precisely moment saw the scene on the screen. Hugh crawled toward the green light flashed on the wall. Once Hugh got on that wall, he was grasping and standing, because then he could put his finger on the green light, he taps the lamp and it had the expression of those who are intrigued and amazed by something. Hugh then suddenly lost his balance and sat down on the floor, made a clear expression of pain. The nurse Cida and another nurse entered the room and put Hugh in bed. Immediately they did a series of tests on him to see if there had been something more serious due to the fall. Ubi thought that was unnecessary and exaggerated, but he not opposed. Ubi right there in his room, where he had accompanied this whole episode has determined that the bed was lowered a few inches in height above the ground, so Hugh could easily get out of it.
Ubi thought much about the incident and concluded that the drugs that controlled Hugh's brain may have been preventing his personality and consciousness to develop. Maybe that's why there seemed to be some mental retardation in Hugh.
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