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“Yes. It’s something I’ve always wanted to be. Even when I was a kid. I used to perform surgeries on my teddy bears. Without a license…”
Fiath smiled.
“How did you end up here all the way from Earth?” he said.
I was surprised he remembered where I was from.
“It’s not like it was through choice,” I said. “I was abducted. The locals told me it’s the Changelings that do that to innocent people. Then they transport them across the galaxy.”
Fiath frowned.
“Are you sure about that?” he said.
“It’s what the tribespeople told me,” I said. “What reason do they have to lie?”
“The Changelings just overthrew their empire.”
I shook my head.
“This was before that happened,” I said.
Fiath’s frown lines grew deeper.
“I never knew they were so underhanded,” he said.
“I guess we have a common enemy,” I said.
“Yes,” Fiath said. “We do.”
His eyes had turned hard as steel. It was a dangerous look that made me think maybe there was a reason he avoided my question about what he did in the city.
Even with his body as damaged as it was, he was in fine physical shape. I wondered what he looked like when he still had his face. I bet he was devilishly handsome…
I started. Focus, girl!
Since when did I fantasize about patients?
Never! That’s when.
Flustered, I consulted my clipboard.
“Can you move your fingers?” I said.
He moved his digits on one hand and then the other.
That was good news. It ruled out dangerous deeper tissue injuries he might have sustained due to the burning.
“How about your toes?” I said.
He wiggled them.
I ran a finger up his shin.
“Can you feel this?” I said.
“Yes,” he said.
I did the same thing with the other leg.
