His Forbidden Guard
The garden was Daveson's one concession to the outside world.
Not a large concession. Dr. Chen had been precise about what it was and was not — it was not exercise, it was not exertion, it was not the particular category of physical activity that his body had been instructed, clearly and without ambiguity, to abstain from for the duration of the bed rest. It was movement. The specific minimum of it. Twenty minutes, Dr. Chen had said, on the flat path between the east wing and the formal hedge, at whatever pace the body chose, which was to say the slow pace, the deliberate pace, the pace of someone who was not going anywhere in particular and who understood that arriving was not the point.
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