Chapter 46
Cheers and enjoy.
Torian woke to the feel of the kolto all around him, tubes in his nostrils and down his oesophagus made him feel awful. But what the fact that he could only see out of his left eye distracted him from the general discomforts of being submerged.
It took a while to focus, his good eye struggled. Once it focused, Torian wished he hadn't been stubborn and hadn't managed.
The reflection was not kind to him. But then again, he was maybe half the man he had been before.
The Kolto would fix that, but it would itch first. A lot.
Torian sighed as best as one could with tubes in every orifice. Mako was going to chew him out for this. Torian was glad she could chew him out for this. He tried to remember the whole thing, but there wasn't much to remember. Heat. Lots of it, and locking all of his mechanisms in place before passing out under the heat.
Turns out that was a good thing. Torian rose his left/good hand to the right side of his face to get a bit of a better look, but the bridge of his nose blocked a bit too much of the view so he couldn't really see. His right arm just wasn't working. Torian gave up trying to look and began to just feel his face.
Oh, he would look like osik even when this healed.
A screen lit up, and Mako sat on one of their stretchers in the med bay.
"You're a jerk, you know that? Do you LIKE scaring the osik out of me?!"
Torian chuckled as Mako stood up and pointed at him through the screen. She sighed and sat back down.
"Torian, I love you like a brother, but you are going to get yourself killed, I am shocked and I hope you thanked whoever has your back, because it was really close this time!"
Torian looked away, shamed by how his actions had not taken Mako's affection into account. He nodded to her.
"Good, I want you to think this over seriously, I mean, not like you can do anything else for the next little while, anyway."
Torian let his whole body heave as he sighed. He was going to lose his mind in here. He focused his good eye at Mako and tried to mouth his question at her. She squinted and he repeated a few times before she nodded.
"You've been in there for about a week now, you're making a quick recovery. But you got maybe 3 more weeks to go before I can even think of taking you out."
Mako's words brought tears to Torian's eyes as the full weight of her statement hit him. But tears were not visible in a kolto tank.
"But don't you worry, we are going to take turns talking to you, make sure you're not bored. In fact, Gault's right here."
Torian shed a tear of despair.
