MedStar I: Battle Surgeons by Michael Reaves & Steve Perry

Author:Michael Reaves & Steve Perry [Reaves, Michael & Perry, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, SciFi, Star Wars, Galactic Republic Era, Clone Wars
ISBN: 0345463102
Publisher: Del Rey

Jos walked across the compound, a damp heralding wind and suddenly overcast sky cooling the muggy afternoon somewhat as—big surprise—another storm approached. He had gotten pretty good at judging these things after all the months here. He knew he had two, maybe three minutes before the sky would open up.

“Jos?” Tolk said. “You okay?”

She had come up to walk beside him. He hadn’t even noticed her in his preoccupation with this new and suddenly troubling knowledge.

“Me? I’m fine.”

“No, you aren’t. Remember who I am. What is it?”

He shook his head. “Just had a blindfold removed I didn’t know I was wearing. Something I took for granted, never really thought about before. I’m… feeling pretty stupid.”

“Well, how unusual is that?”

He looked at her, saw the smile, and appreciated her trying to cheer him up. He managed a small smile of his own. “Bet you scored ‘sharpshooter’ on your basic weapons tests.”

“Actually, I rated ‘master’ with the pulse rifle, and dropped down to ‘sharpshooter’ only with the sidearm blaster.”

“Figures. I was ‘basic marksman’ with both, which means I can’t hit the side of a Destroyer—from the inside.”

“You want to talk about it?”

He stopped. The rain was almost here. She put her hand on his shoulder, and, oh, yes, he wanted to talk about it. Later—when they were holding each other, kissing, and happier than he’d been since he had been conscripted. Then he’d talk about it. She’d be hard-put to shut him up, then.

But now…

“Not really, no,” he said. The touch of her hand on his shoulder was almost hypnotic in its comfort.

The storm hit then. Big, fat drops, a few at first, pattered—and then the deluge. They stood together in the rain, not moving.

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