when Robbie was safely enconched in his mothers gasp again the questioned seemed to come at him from everyone in the hallway....

         he didn't like that..he never liked that..

and he began to sway..and flail around in his mother arms

         as she held him near and tried to quiet him

               she quieted her own breathing

               and moved his head to her chest

                       she was his angel

            and now he had a new angel friend

           and this one could speak in his mind

            and he could speak in her mind too

thump thump...thump thump...thump thump...thump thump

         the first sound he had ever heard in his life

             his mothers heart...his minds lifeline

   he began to relax and hum to it's rhythm and sway slowly

"be quiet and move away"....."stop the noise and don't move around so much.....Robbie's Uncle   a doctor who worked there said "everyone who has no business here leave...and leave quietly......my nephew is Autistic....you're over stimulating him...leave him alone"

and he and his wife Camilla  began to escort the crowd down the hall

Markem.... who hadn't completely observed the incident.... as he was frantically trying to keep any others from streaming into the nursery heard his colleague conversation with the people in the hall....Autistic...the child who so quickly engage with his creature was Autistic.....

he motioned Dr Bonavitra over to him

"does he speak" ???.......Markem asked....

"occasional words" Lucius said "not always on topic...sometime only mimicing what someone else is saying"

but that doesn't mean he can't communicate his needs...he's just not really verbal......

all of the data about the Autistic brain began to move with computer like precision thru Markem brain....he look at his creature....then he looked at the boy...he began to stroke his beard....and look detached...he quickly came out of the nursery ...pulled off his comtamination gear and hurried out....

"where are you going Amel" Lucius asked

"to my office" Markem replied..."i need to incorporate some new data into the creature model"

    Robbie began to say "creature...creature...creature"

         in that repetitive way he sometimes did

 he kept turning his head to the left and right as if indicating

                    ..NO..NO..NO..NO..