Helio Steel (Soulship Book 5) by Nathan Thompson

Author:Nathan Thompson [Thompson, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Unconsciousness took me. Angelic wings fluttered around me as something took hold of me and carefully pulled me back, something small and fluffy repeatedly tickling my nose and squeaking when I didn’t react.

I awoke in a capsule bed, stripped of everything but my trousers. Bandages and ointments adorned most of my torso and arms. The glass lid of the capsule was closed, and small vents along the bottom and sides emitted a cool, soothing mist that did wonders for my lungs with every inhalation.

Jasper, my scans show you just woke up, Vessa said in my mind. I’m going to remove the sound and visibility dampeners from the glass, but I absolutely need you to stay in the capsule. Please. I promise to listen extra hard the next time you tell me to be careful, if you will do this for me.

I answered her with a groggy groan, and she took that as an agreement. The green glass slowly changed from completely opaque to just shaded enough to block the worst of the room’s light. I blinked slowly to help process the new stimulation as an older Hayan woman in a plain, brown dress leaned over the glass.

“He looks much better,” Farm Elder Jina noted clinically. “The ointments appear to have helped some, but not nearly as much as they should have. You were right about his body. It is unusually powerful, yet certain treatments are not nearly as effective as they should have been. I regret that I am not a more accomplished healer. Our tribe has never needed to treat a qi or mana practitioner of his power.”

“Please do not worry yourself, Elder,” Vessa said gently. She sat on a chair nearby with Blaz in her lap and Malkia by her side. “Few practitioners under the night sky are capable of treating the nature of a being who has Advanced so far in all three Sources. Treating the specifics of a single-source practitioner is complicated enough.

“This is a good reminder for us to be on the lookout for other doctors in case we ever need to shelter practitioners of other Sources. As for Jasper, my capsule’s healing mechanisms worked this well on him for the same reasons yours failed: thanks to the efforts of his adopted ancestor Sourcebeasts, my Anchor Knight has more in common with my flesh-body than he does a normal practitioner’s.”

“It does not explain why he was so badly harmed!” Mota said as if she had just remembered not to shout when she began speaking. She and Nova were standing on the opposite side of my bed, with Nestor perched on Nova’s shoulder. “I saw the energies involved! His armor should not have failed him so completely! I did not work so hard on it just for it to become paper when he needed it the most!”

“It didn’t fail him, Mota,” Vessa told her Beacon gently. “It kept certain energies from completely shredding him apart. You didn’t notice it because of the ones that were able to bypass it completely.

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