Hostage
“Sometimes painful things were being done to her. Sometimes voices talked over her, one of them rather harsh and impatient. And sometimes there was just peace broken only by mechanical-sounding clicks and whirs and beeps.
And an occasional soft whine that was familiar.
She had no idea how long she’d been out of it, and she was a bit fuzzy on the events that had occurred before she had lost consciousness.
I was shot. By an arrow. Because I was dumb, mostly. Luther . . . patched me up ...as best he could. And then . . . I was on the litter? Long way to . . . Jacoby’s cabin. I think. What then? Don’t remember.
When she finally forced open her eyes, the first thing she realized was that Cesar was lying beside her on the bed. The hospital bed. He was mostly alongside her legs, which put his big head at just about her hip level.
The whine she had recognized was him.MoreLess
And an occasional soft whine that was familiar.
She had no idea how long she’d been out of it, and she was a bit fuzzy on the events that had occurred before she had lost consciousness.
I was shot. By an arrow. Because I was dumb, mostly. Luther . . . patched me up ...as best he could. And then . . . I was on the litter? Long way to . . . Jacoby’s cabin. I think. What then? Don’t remember.
When she finally forced open her eyes, the first thing she realized was that Cesar was lying beside her on the bed. The hospital bed. He was mostly alongside her legs, which put his big head at just about her hip level.
The whine she had recognized was him.MoreLess
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