CHAPTER 3 – INTRODUCTIONS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS

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"Hello? Hello?... She is still sleeping"

I was not asleep, I could hear her voice, but I couldn't move a single muscle of my body. Unfortunately my nerves were aware of the situation. I was alive.

I felt really cold, like I've never felt it, maybe I was in a fridge, maybe I have been frozen by Alsages atmosphere. No. I was just naked. A female voice continued saying things, I didn't understand what she was saying. Then a little pinch, and the silence... again.

What's happening? Am I in hell? Have my prayers been listened?

Hell for someone is a paradise compared to his life, suffering is just suffering, and the way it is inflicted is really important. My suffering won't stop now, I thought, I will suffer hell plagues for my family, my people and also, for my body.

I opened my eyes and closed immediately, a strong bright light stroke on my face, then the cold sensation of being naked. My eyes got used to the light in few less than fifteen seconds, then my head started hurting. Like resurrected I woke up from that coma state and understood where I was: on a spaceship.

Where am I? Is this hell? What happened to my arm?

My beautiful right arm was not made of flesh anymore, it was bionic. A tear fell from my eye, the only natural eye. Yes, my face was half bionic. I cried without screaming, it's so hard to do, but I didn't want to attract the attention on me, even if I was in a small closed room that looked like an infirmary, alone, and sad. I never cried like that moment, my eye hurt for it, the saddest and unluckiest Asari in the whole galaxy, just wondering in a slow death, or a revenge. A revenge for my family, for me, for my people, the saddest Asari became the angriest one.

I realized that maybe I was in the enemy den, so with extreme fatigue I got up and grabbed a little scalpel, I was ready to kill, in the bloodiest way possible.

No one in sight, I must be quick but silent, a shadow.

My feet hardly held up me in that long white corridor, I continued walking then two men went out a room, I hided in a little black spot.

"How the Asari feel?"

"She is still sleeping, it have been seven days before the attack, I'll go later to her, now I'm hungry"

Green light, let's go to the shuttles

My head was just too clouded to understand what I was doing, but I could identify clearly a sound: the alarm.

"Warning, Warning, security breach, Warning Warning, security breach"

Please stop it!! My head explode!

I didn't care of it so I continued walking to the shuttles, when someone saw me.

"Hey you!! Stop it!!"

Like a miracle I ran. My feet made an enormous work making me running, and it was just fifteen minutes that I was awake. My pursuer followed me.

"Axxos we have a problem!"

I managed to hide in a little room, so my pursuer lost me. I ran, like I've never done only to be seen by a woman and a man

"Stop the Asari!!"

Only one corner separated me from the shuttles but behind that corner there was not my salvation, but there was him... Axxos.

A big Turian stopped me and pointed his gun at me, so I approached the scalpel to his throat. He was like other Turians I've seen on Alsages, but his face wasn't so terrorizing, rather it was a bit gentle.

"Hello lady, I see that you are now awake and ready to kill"

"Who the hell are you?"

I approached the scalpel more to his throat, I was a centimeter to his neck.

"My name is Axxos, and I welcome you to my ship: The "Dead Walker". Now please throw back that knife, I'll not hesitate to shot you if you hurt me"

"Why did you kill my family you motherfucker?!"

"Axxos are you all right?" Said the two pursuers behind me

My words were like vomit and I was sick, very sick.

"Everything all right. I know you are furious and you want some answers but I don't think you understood were you are, we saved you from that bastard Turians that killed your family and your people"

"Bullshit!! I saw a spaceship and a bomb coming out from it, how can you not be them?"

"Every Citadel mission has a particular security system that become operative when planet workers population cove of 60%, so Citadel asked us to watch over in order to have maximum security and secret of the operation. We are just bounty hunters."

"I don't believe in you!! Why should I!?"

"Because maybe you wanna live, Make things without sense is very dangerous, even for a half Asari, half mechanical robot like you even with your biotic training I will never let you go out here alive, we will escort you to the Citadel where you'll be lodged with the Presidium money."

His words were harsh, but sincere.

"Now... Asari, You must chose: you can die stupidly or being cured by our doctor Amanda who will put a skin over your mechanical parts and have a normal life at the Citadel, choose."

Some seconds of hesitations, then I gave the scalpel to Axxos. I was calm in that moment, but not peaceful.

"Good choice. Amanda please take her to the infirmary where she can rest a bit".

"Yes Axxos, come with me dear"

I walked with that human, not so old but no young anymore, she must have had like 45 years, very kind and friendly. She had short black hair and big blue eyes, his face made me calm and quiet, but inside I was just burning.

We entered the room and helped me to lay down on a little bed.

"How much I've been sleeping?"

"Fifteen days, but don't worry, everything will be OK. I'm going to the canteen, I imagine you'll be hungry, I'll be back in a second".

She left me alone, again, and I started crying, again.

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