(SPOILERS) Questions??

KNick wrote:

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My question has to do with Merlin's visit and role in Hector's recovery. On page 433 we read "The first was that and he'd long ago injected Hector and Irys--and Davyn and Earl Coris, for that matter--with the same nanotech with which he'd injected every member of the inner circle."

So what was Merlin's rush to get there? What was it that Merlin did to intervene to save Hector's life? It wasn't injecting nanites.. That had already been done "long ago." So what made Merlin's presence so critical that Hector and Irys had to be told the truth without being properly vetted?

Don

At a guess, and it is only a guess, Hector's heart was actually damaged, not "nearly" hit. While the nanites could stop the blood loss, they could not repair the beating heart like they could with other muscles. The other factor is, how were they going to explain Hector's survival to Iris. If Hector lived without medical intervention and without Iris being in on the story, there would have been all those unanswerable questions from the medical community. Without Iris's informed help, the charade couldn't be pulled off. In that case Merlin was needed to prove to Iris that what she was being told was true.

Who knows what the capabilities of medical nanites really are? It may be a time problem; you can take all the time in the world to repair a damaged PICA, a damaged human you have to fix in a limited time before they just die and TF technology is not really magic.

Actually it would have been perfectly possible to fix up Hector without bringing either him or Irys into the circle. Maikel opens the window for some air, Merlin stuns Iris through it, comes in and fixes up Hector while Maikel closes his eyes and prays. In the morning, by the grace of God and the Archangels, Hector is much better. Maikel can honestly say that he hasn't done anything to Hector, he was just praying all night, after Irys fell asleep. (Which everyone would assume was due to her exhaustion and head wound.) Probably more fun RFCs way though.

My question has to do with Merlin's visit and role in Hector's recovery. On page 433 we read "The first was that and he'd long ago injected Hector and Irys--and Davyn and Earl Coris, for that matter--with the same nanotech with which he'd injected every member of the inner circle."

So what was Merlin's rush to get there?

My take is that Hector was dying, the nanos were barely keeping him alive- Merlin arrives with a Med-Kit.
Hector dies without that intervention.