Without his code brother's unintentional golden overlay , the room reverted to its normal cool lighting. Mostly pale blue, with medical-green highlights; a color combination designed to promote calm, helpful for both the patients and the recompilers. And likely for visiting admins as well, now that it could be seen clearly.
At his code-brother's questions, Gana nodded. "Ideally, one would hope that any further jumping out of windows would be avoided altogether," she said somewhat wryly, "though that would likely be asking too much of programs so closely tied to the Creator. As for more standard and less inadvisable forms of physical activity, though, your brother will be restricted to data-work only for two centi-cycles following his release. That means no cycle riding, visiting the game grid as anything but a spectator, or other forms of strenuous physical activity during that period."
"Two centicycles? Seriously?", Clu interrupted. Did he survive his injuries only to be condemned to derezz from sheer boredom?
"That's the minimum recovery period recommended for damage this extensive," Gana said sternly. "If you intend to be stubborn about it, I can always make it longer."
Clu grumbled something uncomplimentary in binary, but sighed and relented with a nod. Best not to push his luck; recompilers at her clearance level had the ability to enforce their restrictions by temporarily limiting patients access if it was suspected that they would deliberately flout their advice. Plus, it was never a good idea to upset those who'd be working on your coding. Not that he thought they'd do anything unbecoming of their function, but they could be more or less gentle in their ministrations, and he preferred more.
At Clu's nod, Gana continued. "We will provide instructions for some basic stretches designed to promote optimum energy flow to the reconstructed limbs during recovery, and other gentle physical activity such as walking and micocycle to mirocycle tasks around the patient's residence should be fine in reasonable amounts. In fact, a certain level of gentle physical activity is recommended to prevent minor function lockups in reconstructed limbs. Also, we'll want him to increase his per-microcycle energy intake by 10% initially. Provided his recovery is going smoothly by that point, it can be cut back to only an extra 5% after the first centicycle if he so chooses. No high grade though; the last thing a recovering patient needs is a shock to the system, or the other complications that tend to come along with high grade consumption."
"After the two centicycle period, he'll return here for one final check, and provided we deem him sufficiently recovered, he'll be free to resume his normal functions. All this will be in the data packet we'll give the two of you on his release, along with an expected timeline for his recovery and potential issues to look out for, as well as my contact information here at the facility, as well as the contact frequency for the recompiler on duty, if I'm not personally available."
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At his code-brother's questions, Gana nodded. "Ideally, one would hope that any further jumping out of windows would be avoided altogether," she said somewhat wryly, "though that would likely be asking too much of programs so closely tied to the Creator. As for more standard and less inadvisable forms of physical activity, though, your brother will be restricted to data-work only for two centi-cycles following his release. That means no cycle riding, visiting the game grid as anything but a spectator, or other forms of strenuous physical activity during that period."
"Two centicycles? Seriously?", Clu interrupted. Did he survive his injuries only to be condemned to derezz from sheer boredom?
"That's the minimum recovery period recommended for damage this extensive," Gana said sternly. "If you intend to be stubborn about it, I can always make it longer."
Clu grumbled something uncomplimentary in binary, but sighed and relented with a nod. Best not to push his luck; recompilers at her clearance level had the ability to enforce their restrictions by temporarily limiting patients access if it was suspected that they would deliberately flout their advice. Plus, it was never a good idea to upset those who'd be working on your coding. Not that he thought they'd do anything unbecoming of their function, but they could be more or less gentle in their ministrations, and he preferred more.
At Clu's nod, Gana continued. "We will provide instructions for some basic stretches designed to promote optimum energy flow to the reconstructed limbs during recovery, and other gentle physical activity such as walking and micocycle to mirocycle tasks around the patient's residence should be fine in reasonable amounts. In fact, a certain level of gentle physical activity is recommended to prevent minor function lockups in reconstructed limbs. Also, we'll want him to increase his per-microcycle energy intake by 10% initially. Provided his recovery is going smoothly by that point, it can be cut back to only an extra 5% after the first centicycle if he so chooses. No high grade though; the last thing a recovering patient needs is a shock to the system, or the other complications that tend to come along with high grade consumption."
"After the two centicycle period, he'll return here for one final check, and provided we deem him sufficiently recovered, he'll be free to resume his normal functions. All this will be in the data packet we'll give the two of you on his release, along with an expected timeline for his recovery and potential issues to look out for, as well as my contact information here at the facility, as well as the contact frequency for the recompiler on duty, if I'm not personally available."