Godspeed (novel)

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“Tell it all,” Doctor Eileen said. “Just as it happened, before you have time to forget anything.”

“Why?” I didn’t want to. For one thing, I didn’t know how.

“Because people will want to read about this, a hundred years from now.”

“But it’s…” I paused. Boring? It wasn’t boring to me, but maybe to other people… “Who will want to read it?”

“Everyone. It’s danger and deception, and daring and death. There isn’t a man or woman born who wouldn’t want to read it.”

“But why me? I don’t know how to describe things. You would do a lot better job.”

Doctor Eileen put her hand on the top of my head and ruffled my hair. I hated it when she did that. If I hadn’t been sitting down she couldn’t have. “If you mean I could do a smoother, more experienced job, you’re right. I could do it better in that way. But you’re a lot younger than me, and your memory ought to be ten times as good. Most important, a lot of what I said would be what they call hearsay. That means I heard about it, but I wasn’t in the thick of it from start to finish, the way that you were—and only you were. You are the right one, Jay. You have to tell it.”

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