Ajos: The Restitution - A Sci-fi Alien Romance, Book 1, стр. 15
“What’s your name?”
“Alaina,” the woman said, raising her hand to touch her head. “What the hell happened?”
The woman answered fast and her speech wasn’t slurred…that was good.
Kerena glanced at Ajos and he was looking at her with a grim expression on his face.
Possibly he knew what happened because she had no true idea. If they’d really been bombed…
“I need to help the others,” he said.
Kerena was nodding before she even could form the words. “Of course. Do what you have to do.”
The alien hesitated for a second, his gaze traveling over her, and Kerena realized he was checking whether she had injuries.
“I’m fine,” she smiled. “You saved me.”
The alien’s throat moved as he regarded her some more before he jerked his head and disappeared into the lessening dust.
“What happened?” Alaina groaned again. “I can hardly see anything.”
Kerena gulped. She wasn’t sure if Alaina was referring to the dust or the bright light that had almost blinded her.
Ajos had shielded her from the light. How he’d known in that split second that the bomb was coming, she didn’t know.
She’d seen his face change, seen the terror that had transformed his features suddenly. If not for his quick thinking, she would have been suffering more than a few broken bones.
She’d possibly have lasting effects on her eyes as well.
“I’m not sure what happened.” Kerena looked over the woman. Choosing to keep her thoughts to herself, Kerena focused on Alaina instead. “Do you feel pain anywhere except your head?”
Alaina shook her head. Her face had a pained expression and she was squinting hard as well, but she seemed to be in her right mind.
“Okay.” Kerena looked behind her. There were a lot of women who needed help. “I have to go see if I can help the others,” she murmured.
“Go.” Alaina grimaced but sat up straighter to lean against the stasis pod behind her.
Pushing strength into her feet, Kerena stood.
The dust had settled somewhat and she could see better now, but despite what she’d been expecting, she still wasn’t ready for what she saw.
There were people strewn everywhere, over and under the stasis pods.
Above them was another row of stasis pods and Kerena realized the stasis hold had indeed fallen unto its side.
At the front of the hold, she spotted Ajos and the other aliens moving the injured humans toward what was now the floor at the front of the room.
She headed that way.
She’d had to take a first-aid class as part of her new job and now was the time to use that knowledge.
Dust covered everyone and the pained cries she heard as she moved toward the front pulled at her heartstrings.
Athena was there tending as best as she could to the injured females, and Kerena joined her to check the pulse of the next woman in line.
The woman was alive, but from the way her arm was set, it looked broken.
“Is there a hospital? Can we get them to it?” Kerena asked.
“There’s a med bay. We’ve sent word. They’ll be coming as soon as they can, but I’m afraid they’re already overwhelmed with casualties.” Athena glanced her way as she moved to another victim.
Her words puzzled Kerena for a moment before realization dawned. Still, she asked, “What do you mean?”
Athena’s look was grim. “Those fuckers bombed the entire perimeter. There were people—there were other beings out there. They didn’t have the cover of this stasis hold. They hit them directly and without warning.”
Kerena swallowed hard, her eyes moving to the hole in the wall.
The hole was above them now because the stasis hold had flipped, and she was looking up into a cloudless, brownish sky.
Dust.
Outside was filled with dust.
“How will the doctors get in?”
Athena glanced up, her gaze focusing on the hole in what was now the roof.
“They’ll find a way.”
As she spoke, the head of an alien popped into the hole and his dark eyes flicked over everything before he seemed to find his mark and jumped down.
Kerena noted the shark-like fins on his back before her eyes widened as an angel followed behind him, floating down on huge iridescent wings.
They rushed over to two of the women in black and white and she couldn’t help but stare.
One of the women was pregnant, it seemed. She was gripping her belly, her gaze worried as she met the alien’s eyes. The alien with the fins crouched to place his face against her baby bump, but his dark eyes seemed murderous.
Alarm bells rang in Kerena’s head.
“Are they—”
“They’re friendly,” Athena said. “They’re their husbands.”
Oh…okay.
Someone groaned beside her, and Kerena pulled her attention away from the couples before quickly moving to the injured woman.
This one definitely had a concussion.
Her words were slow, slurred, and she didn’t answer any of Kerena’s questions.
Gulping, Kerena’s gaze traveled over the stasis hold. The dust had settled enough for her to see, and she watched as Ajos and the other aliens moved to help the humans.
There were so many injured people, she could only hope they didn’t end up with any casualties.
As Ajos and his comrades brought the women from wherever they’d fallen, she worked with Athena checking vitals.
She didn’t know how long she and Athena worked, but it felt like time moved slowly.
Medical supplies were lowered inside as the aliens worked to cut another hole into the side of the stasis hold.
The medical supplies consisted of a bunch of small packets she didn’t how to use, but with Athena’s help, they managed to tend to most of those who were the least injured.
However, there were those they couldn’t immediately help.
There were broken legs, broken arms, a few people seemed to have concussions and there was one woman who couldn’t move at all.
She didn’t even want to think about what that could mean.
The angel alien airlifted the emergency cases out through the hole in the top. Meanwhile, they did everything they could to tend to the women before the hole in the side was