Seer Wars Season One: A New Earth (Part I): A Romantic Science Fantasy Saga by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

PUMA

“Where are you taking me?” River asked. “Now, I mean.”

Puma had already taken her to their ship’s sickbay, to be looked over by the medical technicians.

River heard the dark-eyed human swear the techs to secrecy. She couldn’t understand a lot of the exchange, but she knew the words for “captain,” “don’t tell,” and “quiet.”

She didn’t bother to tell Puma that she was wasting her time.

Targen would definitely know.

He would pick it up from the minds of his crew, if nothing else.

Anyway, assuming she saw him anytime in the next week, he would definitely notice the cuts and bruises all over her face and demand she explain herself.

Targen noticed absolutely everything.

Still, the alien doctor types did a good job hiding the worst of the damage.

They sealed the cuts on her head and face with some kind of pen-sized instrument that emitted warmth along with a pasty, gluey gel. They cleaned her off thoroughly with a different gel and a small sponge, then stuck some kind of compress-type bandage along the side of her eye and cheek where it had begun to swell. They sealed her busted lip from the metal thing that hit her, and from the punch in the mouth.

They smeared more goo at her hairline and along one jaw.

They rubbed a warm liquid into the bruises on her ribs, spine, neck, and arms.

When they finished, River could still see redness and swelling in most of those places, and the larger cuts if she really squinted, but overall, she looked surprisingly normal once they removed the bandage on her face. Whatever that bandage was filled with, they apparently didn’t need to leave it there longer than fifteen minutes.

Again, Targen would definitely notice if he saw her in the next few days.

He would notice her moving differently, if nothing else. But at least the injuries were subtle enough now that she didn’t feel like a walking billboard for a beat-down.

Looking vulnerable would hardly help her situation here.

Anyway, knowing Targen, she might not see him in a few days, or even the next week. Which meant, if his crew managed to use their mental strategies to keep Targen from noticing anything wrong had happened, it might be a non-issue.

The thought was a relief.

The last thing she needed was a three-hour lecture from Targen about how everything that happened was her fault⏤or worse, him taking away her room-leaving privileges.

She left her hair down after they visited the lab, hoping that might hide some of the damage. She wondered if it might cause her different problems though, when she caught Puma looking at it, smiling faintly as her dark eyes took in the length of it.

“Can I touch?” she asked finally, reaching out a hand.

River signed a definite “no” on the weird touching.

She wasn’t about to let them start petting her like an animal.

Puma smiled, but held up her hands agreeably.

“Okay,” she said in Hakre. “No touch.”

Puma pointed at River’s hair then, smiling wider.

“Pretty,” the woman said. She jerked her tattooed jaw in the same direction as her pointing finger.

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