“Ah, yes, as I thought.”
Josh looked over Chancellor Debert"s shoulder into the face of Priestess Prudence. The diamond cupped in his palm on the end of his staff grew warm as Josh concentrated, following Debert"s examination of the now restrained and unconscious priestess.
“An implant,” Debert said.
Josh saw the highlighted areas of the brain, the parts themselves so small he wouldn"t have thought them visible. Clearly, Debert knew what to look for. An assembly of neurons in the speech recognition centers was linked with a similar isolated assembly in the memory, and these both were triangulated with a third assembly in the cerebellum. “I don"t understand what I"m looking at,” Josh said.
“Say the word "no," ” Debert asked him.
“No,” Josh repeated.
The speech assembly lit up, sending
