The Regiment by John Dalmas

Author:John Dalmas [Dalmas, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Science Fiction
Published: 2011-04-12T23:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

TYSS

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

When Varlik awoke from sedation, he was in a troop carrier fitted to move wounded from the Beregesh field hospital to the base hospital at Aromanis. He could remember nothing beyond the evac floater and the medic with the syringe.

He'd known something was wrong with his hip, but now his guts hurt badly, too.

He moved his head, his eyes finding a doctor with a captain's collar lozenge. The doctor saw his movement and spoke to him.

"You're back with us, eh?"

"More or less," Varlik answered thickly.

Taking a syringe from a case, the doctor walked over. "The pilot tells me you're the famous white T'swi," he said. "You keep dangerous company. I'm going to give you a little sedative now.

It's another hour to the base hospital, and it's best if you sleep your way there."

The way he hurt, it seemed a good idea, but he had a question first.

"Wait, doc."

The doctor paused.

"How are the guys in my squad?"

"I have no idea. I don't know who was in your squad."

Varlik looked at him blankly. Some of them were probably aboard this craft, and if he asked by name ... But he was having trouble thinking.

"What happened to me? Something hit me in the hip, and then I couldn't move.

Now my belly hurts."

"You were hit in the ilium-part of the pelvis, the hip bone-and the left end of it was broken off.

Then the bullet went through the abdominal cavity and some of its contents emerged through the obliquus externus on the right side. They opened you up at the field hospital at Beregesh and Page 84

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