Planet Sand by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Awaken to Peace Press
Published: 2017-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

18

I shook the man I willed myself not to care about even as I realized I did care whether he lived or died, and it went beyond the fact that he was our ticket off this planet. “Aletox,” I said, even though I’d said it a dozen times already. There was still no response.

“What about using the healing wand some more?” Ilara asked. “Will that help at all?”

“No. The healing wand isn’t capable of faithum. It can’t do anything more to help than it already has, not at this point.”

“Has he lost too much blood?”

“Probably.”

Kai brought his flame near the missing hunk of flesh in Aletox’s thigh. “Oh, that looks really bad. It looks nasty.”

Ilara said, “And maybe beginning to get infected on top of it all.” She stared off into the direction in which we were heading. “If we don’t get him to a hospital soon, he might die.”

“He looks half dead already.” No one disputed Kai’s assessment.

If we hadn’t arrived at a settlement by sunrise, he’d die. If the infection had taken hold too strongly by then, he’d die. If he’d lost too much blood, he’d die. There was a theme to my thoughts, and they all ended up with him dying.

“We have to move now,” I said. “Lila, can you do it? He’ll die for sure if we don’t.”

“Yeah, yeah,” she said, and struggled to get up. “I still might die out here too, from this fucking viper bite, so I have no desire to sit around and eat up time we don’t have to waste.”

I helped her up. She tried putting weight on her bitten leg. “It’s not too bad, I can manage,” she said.

I slung her arm around my uninjured shoulder, and we limped over to Aletox. “We’re going to have to carry him,” I said.

“Aye,” Dolpheus said.

“And how on Earth are we going to do that?” Ilara asked, the only one potentially from Earth. “You can barely walk yourself, I don’t even know how you’re helping her. Kai’s bicep is split wide open. Aletox looks like he weighs two hundred pounds, and he must be at least six foot four. I might be strong for a chick, but there’s no way I’ll be able to pull his dead weight. Which leaves Dolpheus, who blessedly is in one fine piece, but he can’t carry Aletox’s weight across a desert when we’re all literally dying of thirst. He won’t make it.”

“None of us are going to make it if we don’t keep doing whatever we can to get the fuck out of here,” Dolpheus said. “I can carry him, but you’re right, it’ll be tough to do it for long with how beat I am. If we can get one of his arms across your shoulder and the other across mine, we can lean him into me, but that way you’ll be taking at least some of the weight.”

“Let me do that,” Kai said. “My arm’s messed up, but the rest of me isn’t. Well, at least no more than any of the rest of you.

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