“What do you mean you can’t hear that?” Kinard couldn’t help his amazed tone. He’d finally traced out the high-pitched squeal that had been driving him nuts for days. It came from the light fixture in the ten-foot ceiling. The trouble was, no one else could hear it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t hear anything out of the ordinary.” Deanna, the newest nurse in the ER shook her head and looked at him out of the corner of her eye. She thought he was nuts, he could tell. Kinard frowned. How could he be the only one? He’d already thought it was just his ears, but he only heard it here, at the nurse’s station, not in any of the rooms or at home. Tilting his head back he stared up at the offending bulb. How much trouble would he get in if he found a way to climb up there and

