Star-Crossed Captive (BLUESHIFT #1) by J. E. McDonald EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Elara Five, Deep-Space Medical Station
Outskirts of Sector Five
I won’t lose another one.
Blood coated Nia’s hands, the by-product of her patient’s wound, a
defender she’d nearly sent to palliative.
But when she’d put her hand on his arm, felt the vibrancy running through
his veins, his fight—her heart stuttered. She couldn’t speak the words that
would have sent him to the last medical bay he’d ever see.
The sterilizer at the side of the hover bed whirred. She ran her hands
underneath the bright white light, the blood disintegrating beneath the rays.
Once clean, she picked up her regenerator tool and held it tight to stare at
the unconscious defender with chin-length black hair—his wound went
right to the bone.
“You sure about this one?” Ezra asked from beside her, their black
medical uniforms matching hundreds of others in the triage bay.
“I’m sure.” She turned on the regenerator with a flick of her thumb. It
hummed as she brought it close to the exposed femur. Save this one. Too
many had died already. She took a deep breath. Focus. She’d already been
on her feet for six non-stop hours.
“Stimulant,” she murmured.
Ezra shot the drug into the side of Nia’s neck a second later. The triage
bay brightened. Her spine straightened and her heart rate accelerated,
thudding heavily in her chest as her hands steadied.
The defender’s life blood spilled from his thigh to the bed. Ezra hooked
him to fluids, lifted the transfusion portal, and paused.
Nia saw why—the dead PALM on the defender’s left hand. There was no
way to get an identification number, name, or blood type. Without missing a
beat, Ezra inserted the portal in his arm and the synthesized plasma ran into
the patient’s system.
Shouts from across the triage bay echoed. A new surge of wounded
entered on hover beds, shunted into neat rows in the voluminous space.
More silver and gray uniforms.
Too many wounded. Too many to save.
Finish with this one. Move on to the next.
Ezra held the leg immobile as she ran the regenerator along the exposed
muscle. “He’s a big one,” the med assistant murmured, hands steady on the
man’s thigh.
She didn’t acknowledge the statement but had to agree. Even lying down,
the defender dwarfed them both. The Tellusians would see this one coming
and run in the opposite direction. Her patient twitched but remained
unconscious.
Ezra injected another sedative into the defender’s bloodstream and his
movements stilled.
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