Roemary turned to him, and whatever hostility she had vanished in a blink. “No, of course not. We were only speaking.”
“Come,” he said, his gaze bouncing from Adryel to Roemary and back. “Walk me around the floor and introduce me to all the lovely ladies.”
He glanced at Adryel again, and he winked.
Wait.
He winked at her?
What the heck was that about?
Finally, Adryel let the medical droid look at her after everyone else had been treated. Her head throbbed by the time she relented. There were some deeper wounds that she really couldn't feel—shock most likely—but the medical droid was able to treat them quickly and fairly efficiently.
Though only after a couple of hits with the dosing gun, her head stopped swimming and the pain receded.
The whole time, though, she kept scanning the crowd of the girls from the program. Some were doing okay.
Others were more distressed.
Though even Adryel was surprised how the little cliques of girls were rallying around each other, and helping the ones who were the most upset.
She kept hoping she'd see Janae, or even Graecey. That they'd found her, but no luck.
The droid poked her with a needle.
“Ouch!”
“Apologies. Fornige Four-two-three treatment requires tiny needle insertion.”
She sighed. “It's fine,” she muttered, though why she cared if the droid's feelings were hurt or not, she didn't know. “Just wasn't expecting it.”
“There, there.” The droid pulled the needle back and patted her side. The awkward pat was probably supposed to soothe her, but instead it made her chuckle.
“All better there.”
“Good. I can go?”
“We have more to tend to.”
Adryel groaned, and leaned forward, letting the droid go over her back. Evidently, she had some cuts that needed attending to on her back and side.
Never the most pleasant thing to have cuts stitched up.
They probably will look better than anything she’d had before. Normally she slapped a medpatch on them and just let it be.
After what felt like eternity the droid seemed to stop.
“It is repaired.”
She nodded. “Are we done?”
“Vaccines are necessary.” His chest started to blink as he mixed up a batch of whatever vaccines he thought she needed.
It wouldn't surprise Adryel to find out she'd missed a few things. Still, she thought the Galactic Alliance's Science Society had prepped all of that already. Maybe they missed something.
Whatever.
It was all --
