Dragon Prime - continued 2
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Back at F'lessan's weyr he moves the strange woman inside with Jaxom's help more to avoid aggravating her injuries then do to her weight. Despite being close to six feet tall she her bones are almost bird like so she doesn't weigh as much as one might expect. Master Oldive begins to cut the woman's damaged clothing away so that he can minister to her injuries and tells F'lessan and Jaxom to "fetch hot water, clean cloth, towels and soap sand" so that they can clean her up and tend to the many cuts and scraps she received when her shuttle crashed. With the two men out of the way he has Sharra help him. In addition to the many cuts and bruising her right shoulder is dislocated and she has several fractures along the right side from being thrown into the chair and getting tangled up in the safety straps.
By the time F'lessan and Jaxom return Oldive and Sharra have her shoulder back in place and have removed her ruined garments which lay discarded in a heap on the floor. Oldive carefully instructs them to lather the soap sand into a peace of towel and they begin to gently wash the blood and soot from her injuries and body. Her right arm and leg have swollen in response to the broken bone and her pail skin is darkened from massive bruising. The woman is unconscious and breathing shallowly but her heart beets strong. Her black hair has strange blue streaks running threw it and is cut at just below her ears. Oldive and Sharra carefully set the strange woman's bones noting how thin and frail them seam. Oldive comments to the others "I think she may have some sort of bone disorder but we wont be able to find out much until she has recovered somewhat." Sharra carefully bandages the woman's broken leg and asks "Do you want me to mix plaster for the cast?' Oldive pauses for a moment before answering. "No. I want these cuts to heal before we put her in a cast. They need to breath or we risk infection. We can keep her dosed with fellis juice and still until then. I'll send someone to check on the woman and help with her bandages in the morning. We should be able to put her arm and leg in a cast in a seven day give or take."
F'lessan helps move the woman on to a pallet covered with sleeping furs and watches while they prop her arm and leg up before covering her. Oldive stands as best he can and says " I want her kept like this until I say its okay. You will need to dose her with the fellis juice every four hours and it would be best if the dressing and numb weed are changed at the same time. Now, I am going back to my hall to get some sleep. We have done all we can for her for now. Jaxom, if you and Ruth would please take me home?" Jaxom nods his agreement and says "I think we best be returning to Rutha as well. I'm sure you can manage things from here." With that the three visitors depart on Ruth. F'lessan watches Ruth's white form as he takes of and disappears between.
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She drifts, her mind is shrouded in a deep mist that clouds her thoughts and disrupts her focus. Lost in the shadows of unconsciousness she finds the mind of another watching over hers. ^Who are you^ her mind questions the other ^Golanth^ he responds with a slight hint of puzzlement mixed into the thought she tries to hold her focus on the mind of the man who is shielding hers as she drifts about in the strange mist that has engulfed her mind after a while she sends ^Thank you^ to the man. There had been too many thoughts before and with her concussion she had been unable to concentrate enough to block them out. Some how her pilots had gotten the small shuttle to an inhabited system before it crashed. She wanted to know more, to find out about the pilots but she was so very tiered and the mist was extremely thick as she drifted away she thought she caught one last thought from the nurse/healer? Who was shielding her "How?"
With her mind lost in the deep fog of being sedated potential Prime Analia Kline found herself drifting in a semi conscious state. Moving between a state of total oblivion and near consciousness where the mind of the man Golanth lingered. She discovered that Golanth shared a permanent bond with another man whose name she did not know. It was all for the best, this way she knew that her nurse wasn't going to become infatuated. She knew that she would have to head out again as soon as she healed up. Analia did not have time for relationships. She had never had any real free time between school and tower training. The people at Trinity 4 out post base had really pushed her training as much as the could knowing that she was going to have to make an ardorouse journey consisting of jump after jump in order to transport herself back to being within tower range. Of course once she got into range of a tower the trip would go a lot faster. You could teleport a lot more a lot farther when You have the help of a gestalt and generator to boost your power and she would not have to make all of the jumps herself then.
Gravity, she really felt it during those times when she nearly was able to wake up, just before she was given strange tasting fluids that sent her spiraling back down into oblivion. She was not used to so much of it. While part of her regiment had been weight exercises and she was supposed to wear a weighted jacket for at lest 8 hours a day - okay, it had been strongly suggested that she wear the cumbersome thing at all times 8 hours was the minimum amount of time she had to wear it, she had never before lived with gravity this high. She had been born on a deep space mining ship. Such ships are actually massive space stations with powerful drives that traveled outside of federated space mining the asteroid belts of uninhabitable systems for a wide verity of materials which would then be shipped back to the federated colonies that needed them. Everything from fresh water to rare radioactive elements not found any place else would be mined and processed in the massive ship. Because the ships spent decades, sometimes even centuries, outside of the federated colonies the were literally mobile colonies that by necessity saw to all of their needs themselves - including replacement workers in the form of future generations. The highest the gravity ever got on board a ship was 50% earth norm. When she was 3 the ship she was born on had been destroyed, the only survivors had been children and their care givers. Analia grew up in the Trinity 4 out post.
The Trinity system is a space anomaly. A try-nary star system with a hand full of plaints. While none of the plaints in the system have a habitable surface the fourth planet out is a smallish peace of dead rock with an extensive system of tunnels and cavernous below the surface. The out post was built inside the planet and maintains a healthy though artificial atmosphere beneath the plaints crust. Analia grew up in a deep cavernous world with a gravity of about 65% earth norm. Now she with the nearly earth normal gravity of the planet she was starting to think that she really should have followed the doctors recommendations about that heavy and very cumbersome jacket. Dispute the sedative and pain killers the doctors her were giving her she could feel a dull ache in her bones from her new and unaccustomed weight dragging her down. She wondered how long it would take for her to get used to weighing so much?. How long it would take for her body to adjust by increasing her bone mass? Low bone density was a simple by product of living in low gravity. The body did not waist energy and resources on unnecessary bone mass and the amount of bone mass a body needs is directly proportional to the amount of gravity the body is exposed to day to day.
Back at F'lessan's weyr he moves the strange woman inside with Jaxom's help more to avoid aggravating her injuries then do to her weight. Despite being close to six feet tall she her bones are almost bird like so she doesn't weigh as much as one might expect. Master Oldive begins to cut the woman's damaged clothing away so that he can minister to her injuries and tells F'lessan and Jaxom to "fetch hot water, clean cloth, towels and soap sand" so that they can clean her up and tend to the many cuts and scraps she received when her shuttle crashed. With the two men out of the way he has Sharra help him. In addition to the many cuts and bruising her right shoulder is dislocated and she has several fractures along the right side from being thrown into the chair and getting tangled up in the safety straps.
By the time F'lessan and Jaxom return Oldive and Sharra have her shoulder back in place and have removed her ruined garments which lay discarded in a heap on the floor. Oldive carefully instructs them to lather the soap sand into a peace of towel and they begin to gently wash the blood and soot from her injuries and body. Her right arm and leg have swollen in response to the broken bone and her pail skin is darkened from massive bruising. The woman is unconscious and breathing shallowly but her heart beets strong. Her black hair has strange blue streaks running threw it and is cut at just below her ears. Oldive and Sharra carefully set the strange woman's bones noting how thin and frail them seam. Oldive comments to the others "I think she may have some sort of bone disorder but we wont be able to find out much until she has recovered somewhat." Sharra carefully bandages the woman's broken leg and asks "Do you want me to mix plaster for the cast?' Oldive pauses for a moment before answering. "No. I want these cuts to heal before we put her in a cast. They need to breath or we risk infection. We can keep her dosed with fellis juice and still until then. I'll send someone to check on the woman and help with her bandages in the morning. We should be able to put her arm and leg in a cast in a seven day give or take."
F'lessan helps move the woman on to a pallet covered with sleeping furs and watches while they prop her arm and leg up before covering her. Oldive stands as best he can and says " I want her kept like this until I say its okay. You will need to dose her with the fellis juice every four hours and it would be best if the dressing and numb weed are changed at the same time. Now, I am going back to my hall to get some sleep. We have done all we can for her for now. Jaxom, if you and Ruth would please take me home?" Jaxom nods his agreement and says "I think we best be returning to Rutha as well. I'm sure you can manage things from here." With that the three visitors depart on Ruth. F'lessan watches Ruth's white form as he takes of and disappears between.
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She drifts, her mind is shrouded in a deep mist that clouds her thoughts and disrupts her focus. Lost in the shadows of unconsciousness she finds the mind of another watching over hers. ^Who are you^ her mind questions the other ^Golanth^ he responds with a slight hint of puzzlement mixed into the thought she tries to hold her focus on the mind of the man who is shielding hers as she drifts about in the strange mist that has engulfed her mind after a while she sends ^Thank you^ to the man. There had been too many thoughts before and with her concussion she had been unable to concentrate enough to block them out. Some how her pilots had gotten the small shuttle to an inhabited system before it crashed. She wanted to know more, to find out about the pilots but she was so very tiered and the mist was extremely thick as she drifted away she thought she caught one last thought from the nurse/healer? Who was shielding her "How?"
With her mind lost in the deep fog of being sedated potential Prime Analia Kline found herself drifting in a semi conscious state. Moving between a state of total oblivion and near consciousness where the mind of the man Golanth lingered. She discovered that Golanth shared a permanent bond with another man whose name she did not know. It was all for the best, this way she knew that her nurse wasn't going to become infatuated. She knew that she would have to head out again as soon as she healed up. Analia did not have time for relationships. She had never had any real free time between school and tower training. The people at Trinity 4 out post base had really pushed her training as much as the could knowing that she was going to have to make an ardorouse journey consisting of jump after jump in order to transport herself back to being within tower range. Of course once she got into range of a tower the trip would go a lot faster. You could teleport a lot more a lot farther when You have the help of a gestalt and generator to boost your power and she would not have to make all of the jumps herself then.
Gravity, she really felt it during those times when she nearly was able to wake up, just before she was given strange tasting fluids that sent her spiraling back down into oblivion. She was not used to so much of it. While part of her regiment had been weight exercises and she was supposed to wear a weighted jacket for at lest 8 hours a day - okay, it had been strongly suggested that she wear the cumbersome thing at all times 8 hours was the minimum amount of time she had to wear it, she had never before lived with gravity this high. She had been born on a deep space mining ship. Such ships are actually massive space stations with powerful drives that traveled outside of federated space mining the asteroid belts of uninhabitable systems for a wide verity of materials which would then be shipped back to the federated colonies that needed them. Everything from fresh water to rare radioactive elements not found any place else would be mined and processed in the massive ship. Because the ships spent decades, sometimes even centuries, outside of the federated colonies the were literally mobile colonies that by necessity saw to all of their needs themselves - including replacement workers in the form of future generations. The highest the gravity ever got on board a ship was 50% earth norm. When she was 3 the ship she was born on had been destroyed, the only survivors had been children and their care givers. Analia grew up in the Trinity 4 out post.
The Trinity system is a space anomaly. A try-nary star system with a hand full of plaints. While none of the plaints in the system have a habitable surface the fourth planet out is a smallish peace of dead rock with an extensive system of tunnels and cavernous below the surface. The out post was built inside the planet and maintains a healthy though artificial atmosphere beneath the plaints crust. Analia grew up in a deep cavernous world with a gravity of about 65% earth norm. Now she with the nearly earth normal gravity of the planet she was starting to think that she really should have followed the doctors recommendations about that heavy and very cumbersome jacket. Dispute the sedative and pain killers the doctors her were giving her she could feel a dull ache in her bones from her new and unaccustomed weight dragging her down. She wondered how long it would take for her to get used to weighing so much?. How long it would take for her body to adjust by increasing her bone mass? Low bone density was a simple by product of living in low gravity. The body did not waist energy and resources on unnecessary bone mass and the amount of bone mass a body needs is directly proportional to the amount of gravity the body is exposed to day to day.