Star Trek Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 29 - Aftermath by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780743470582
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2003-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

The massive columns provided excellent cover against the Shanial’s fire (assuming it was the Shanial). Unfortunately, the team was cut off from the exit, which had closed anyway when Krotine had come through to provide cover fire for Konya. It would take more work with the P-38s to get out, which would leave them exposed to the attackers’ particle beams.

Konya had dragged Hawkins behind a column and was scanning him with a tricorder. “It’s not too bad,” Hawkins said with a grunt, critically appraising his own leg wound. “But it…shorted out the gravsuit. I can hardly move.”

“I know,” Konya said. “I can feel it all. Here—for both our sakes.” Konya concentrated for a moment. An intense pain arced through Hawkins for a split second, leaving a relative numbness in its wake. “Wha—what did you do?”

“A feedback trick—temporarily overloaded your pain receptors. Only lasts a few minutes, though.”

“Thanks. Maybe you should’ve been a doctor instead of a security guard.”

Konya studied him. “You have an unusually high sensitivity to pain, did you know that?”

“Well, I can’t actually sense other people’s pain to compare. But I’m not surprised.”

“And yet you went into a line of work that constantly exposes you to pain and injury. Why didn’t you do something safer?”

“Sometimes I ask that myself,” Vance smirked. “Here I thought my bad-luck streak had finally broken—but no, first day back, I get shot.” Noticing Konya’s dark eyes appraising him, Hawkins searched for a serious answer. “Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it. But bottom line—it is. If it protects other people. So I’m not going to let a little sensitivity stop me from doing what’s worth doing.”

Konya smiled. “Then we have more in common than you thought.”

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