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“Thank you,” she says and I get a warm feeling inside. She calls to my heart this little female.

“The scans show old fractures that have not healed properly,” O’Rec points out to her. “There is internal damage in your lower abdomen and two cracked ribs. The rest is just bruising.”

I am doing my best to keep calm, but hearing O’Rec recite the damage done to her body is making me angry.

She touches my arm again. “It’s okay, D’Var.”

I turn to look at her, and she is looking at me softly.

“What’s done is done, and I think you have a way to fix the damage, right?”

O’Rec clears his throat. “We have an injection, which heals your wounds. And we also have nano-technology. I can give you a small dose to heal your bruises and to restore the wrongly healed fractures, if you want?”

I look at her, while she is fumbling with the hem of her sleeves again.

“L’Ren,” I call her out and her gaze shoots to mine. “Would you like that?” Her gaze does not meet my eyes and then it hits me.

“I will help with the injections.” Her head shoots up and she looks at me.

“I would love that," she says.

I look at O’Rec confirming with a nod.

“I want D’Var to give you the healing injections now, if that is okay,” he says. “It is best to wait on the nano-tech until you are ready for bed, because it will make you sleepy.”

L’Ren rolls up her sleeve. I take the injection from O’Rec and quickly administer it to her. She winces when the needle breaks her skin, but she does not make a peep. She is so strong, my Zarra, I am in awe of her.

After I give the used injection back to O’Rec to recycle, I am not sure what to do with myself. I look at L’Ren, and it feels like she is also at a loss for words or actions. Her eyes are scanning the room, looking everywhere but at me.

“Are you hungry?” I try, there has to be something I can help her with.

She shrugs, and I feel strangely inadequate.

“What do you need, L’Ren?” I ask her. She looks up at me and blinks.

“What do you need, L’Ren?” I ask again and I can see by the way she is biting her lip that she has thought of something but is still too afraid to ask, so I look at her and wait.

“I would really love to shower or bathe in some way. Do you have a sonic-shower here?”

I grin at her. “I have something even better, follow me!”

Lauren

D’Var precedes me into the hallway. The automatic doors of the medical bay open and close with a swoosh and we are moving towards the left.

“There are two hallways.” D’Var gestures towards the direction we just came from. “The one on the other side leads to the engine room, cargo bay and the airlock, and this one holds our personal quarters and guest rooms.”

I look further into the hallway, and I see it curves after a couple of doors.

“This is T’Rak’s room.” D’Var points to the first door on the right. He then points towards the second door on the right. “And that is O’Rec’s room.”

The doors on the right are substantially further apart then the doors on the left. There are three more doors, two between the other alien’s rooms, and one further than we are now.

“What are those?” I ask, unable to contain my curiosity.

“Guest quarters,” he says gruffly as he continues walking. He walks up to the last door on the left and pauses.

“This is the room you can use to sleep.” He steps aside so I can enter the room. It’s small but has an actual bed, and when I look to the side there is a door which I think leads to the bathroom. I walk up to it and try to open it, but I fail.

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