Buck by Helen Hardt

Author:Helen Hardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardt & Sons

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ASPEN

Shattered tibia and fibula.

Nerve damage.

Nerve damage.

Nerve damage.

Voices around me, and then Diamond.

“Garnet, can you hear me? Garnet?”

The sounds are coming through a funnel or something.

They make it to my ears, but there’s something unreal about them. Maybe I’m underwater.

Maybe…

Did he drown me?

No.

They’re not allowed to kill us.

There aren’t any pools deep enough for them to hold us down and drown us, not on the hunting ground.

Still…

If I were drowning, would I be able to breathe?

Am I breathing?

I’m numb. So numb.

Can’t move my leg.

My left leg.

There’s a searing pain.

Searing pain all around my right breast.

“She’s coming to.” Not Diamond’s voice.

An image emerges in my peripheral vision.

A woman. A woman in scrubs. Green scrubs.

“Garnet. Garnet, can you hear me?”

Yes.

But the words don’t come out. Only a soft squeak.

“She’s trying to talk,” Green Scrubs says.

Then Diamond’s face. Her kind and wrinkled face in my field of vision. She’s blurry, but I recognize her.

She’s the only person I recognize.

“Garnet, you’re going to be here for a couple of months. It’s a respite.”

I try to open my mouth.

“It’s okay. Don’t try to talk. Your tibia and fibula on your left leg are broken. Shattered. You’ve got some damage to your right breast. But you will be fine. Your bones need to knit together. You’ve had surgery. It will take some time, but you will be good as new again.”

Where am I? Is this person a doctor? Am I still on the island?

I lose consciousness then.

Maybe Diamond’s right.

Enjoy the respite.

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