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Hazel took my hand. The warmth of her skin beat the agony to a dim murmur.
She placed her other hand on my forehead where sweat was already beginning to blossom in tiny beads. She didn’t shudder when she looked at me. And she didn’t recoil at the touch of my coarse and angry skin.
Her touch was more powerful than all the Healer’s Touch ointment in the world combined.
Then she began to sing. It was a song of hope and longing. A song from her homeworld, no doubt.
I relaxed even further, my muscles pressing into the soft bedding as this angel watched over me.
The valiant defender at war with the angel of death at my other hand.
2
HAZEL
He fell asleep.
I placed his hand down on the bedspread and backed away silently. In all my years of nursing, I’d never seen anything like this.
On Earth, I was a nurse. I’d seen gunshot wounds, stabbings, beatings, all manner of injuries. It took some time for the patients to recover but there was always an understanding that, if the injuries weren’t too severe, there was no reason they couldn’t make a full recovery.
There was no doubt in my mind no human could have survived what this poor Titan had gone through.
A large part of his flesh had melted away like chocolate on a hot stove. I could smell his charred flesh before I saw him. My mouth actually salivated before I laid eyes on him.
Even peering down at him now, it was touch and go as to whether or not he would survive. He’d pulled through the worst of it. We’d put an end to the fit he had.
But would he make a full recovery?
I had no idea.
Titans could heal from broken bones in hours, not weeks.
So, how long would it take for them to recover from grade three burns?
But no matter how good their healing ability, the pain was always the same. I dreaded to think how much pain he’d been through. When I offered him the adrenaline, he’d flat out refused it.
Despite the agony he must have endured, he still preferred for another patient to receive the best medicine we had available.
He was a hero. I’d never seen anything so selfless.
I picked up my clipboard and left Fiath to rest. I moved through the space, checking on some of the other patients.
Funny to think that just a couple of weeks ago, I’d been working quite happily in a modern American hospital.
At least, it’d been a couple of weeks in my time.
I had no idea how long I’d been in that pod, how long since me and my friends had been abducted by aliens.
Even now, saying those words brought a confused expression to my face.
Abducted.
By aliens.
I often wondered where my friends were.
Were they elsewhere on this planet? Had they been dumped in an escape pod the same way I had?
