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Then the firing stopped.
I listened with bated breath, panting uncertainly, listening again.
Footsteps tapped on the gangway floor, approaching me.
I grew hopeful it would be him emerging from the darkness without a single blemish.
But it wasn’t him.
It was one of them.
The Changeling clutched his rifle to his shoulder and aimed it at me.
The plasma rifle whirred as it powered up and shone brightly.
The light cast a cloud over him, illuminating his dark sinister grin… and Dyrel behind him, his arm drawn back.
He swung a bottle through the air. It made a loud thomp noise and struck the creature on the back of the head.
He slumped to the floor but wasn’t unconscious yet.
Dyrel stood over him and struck him again, this time so hard it smashed the bottle.
He picked up the creature’s rifle and swung its strap over his shoulder.
Then he bent down to pick me up.
I hissed through my teeth at the pain but didn’t complain.
He carried me through the corridors, heading one way and then another. In the semidarkness, I made out two figures lying sprawled on the floor.
Dyrel was a Terminator.
He reached his shuttlecraft and climbed up the ramp and into the back. He placed me on the sofa. The blankets were still there from our trip to the country. He wrapped them around me.
He grabbed the first aid kit box and opened it.
“The hatch door!” I said. “Close it!”
It hung too open and wide for my liking.
He slapped a hand on a button and returned to the first aid kit.
“Let’s get out of here first,” I said. “I can wait until we reach the planet’s surface.”
He hesitated. This time, he didn’t listen to me.
He used an electronic device and ran it over my whole body.
“It’s broken all right,” he said. “And a couple of your ribs don’t look in good shape either.”
So that was why my breath was rasping in my throat.
He tore open a packet and withdrew some bandages. He wrapped them around my chest and leg. I wondered what good they were meant to do. Then he pressed some invisible buttons on the material and they began to glow. The warmth seeped into my body.
“It will help with the pain and speed up healing,” he said. “But you’re human, not Titan. I don’t know how well it will work on you.”
“It feels better already,” I said. “It feels itchy.”
