BXBX NOVEL Chapter 200 Who Are You?
Scarlet scoffed while Tion carried Elora into the med bed and it closed up. She found it curious how the AI of the med bed could proudly say diagnosis unidentified and illness cured at the same time. If you had no diagnosis then what exactly were you curing? Did the makers of the med bed talk about it's language with real medical professionals? Perhaps, if the scars were gone and the missing leg had been regrown she would agree with the med bed AI but none of that was done. All it had done was clean up any toxins within her, and cure her internal injuries.
Oh well, she thought, at least now, the girl was conscious and she was breathing on her own. There was no lack for health monitoring bracelets in the castle and she tied one around the girls arm.
"You should use your kinesis more to do such simple things. It will help you in your mecha classes." Tion commented.
"I have never used it before." Scarlet replied. Waking up in the morning and being told you had an active super power did not mean you automatically adapted to it. She was used to carrying things in her hands and not floating them in air. If she wanted salt, she asked for it to be passed and did not use her mental strength to slide it over. In her opinion, dinner in their family was chaotic because when they were alone, her brothers and sisters used kinesis to move plates, food, drinks and other things around. Was it so hard to say, "please pass me the salt or the potatoes?"
"You should begin." Tion said again. "Start with small things like pushing a button, pulling your shoes closer, closing a manually operated door."
"I will take that under advisement." she replied.
"That one needs to see a doctor, they both do. I have seen burns like that when mecha warriors explode their mechas as a last resort to kill mutated beasts. They survive because they are dressed in armor but injuries such as these are inevitable. Did your teacher tell you what happened to them?" Tion asked her and he looked at her curiously.
Silently, she looked back at him and said, "You are overly chatty today."
"You have encouraged me to talk more around you governor, I am simply doing as you wish."
"And this is what you wish to begin with." she stated.
"It is what's on the table right now. As your personal protector who would die for you, I believe that I should be in the loop with everything that concerns you. Or am I wrong?" he answered calmly, with a softer expression on his face, one that was unlike him. "Your teacher treated them, not you, they could be dangerous to you. You don't get such injuries by playing around, they were involved in some pretty serious stuff.
They could be criminals, space pirates, rebels, fugitives from the Lunar federation."
"They - they are my teacher's relatives." she said after a small pause. "My teacher gave me a lot of help so I will do the same for them, these two women are royalty on our star. They were harmed by a bad man a long time ago which is how they were injured." She replied with a mixture of truths and lies.
Maddox had truly helped her with everything in the storage bracelet that he gave her. He also had a small stash of seeds which she would plant in the summer but so far, there was no explanation where the seeds originated. Some of his notes on mecha crafting she had gifted to Carolyn which had improved her skills by leaps and bounds.
He even had weather monitoring devices which she was going to have installed after winter to monitor the blue star weather better. Maddox's footprints could not be eliminated in the development of this planet. His sister and her daughter deserved a chance to start anew here. If they had no memories of who they were, she would not mention their identities to them.
The med bed opened again with a similar diagnosis and Tion carried Elora out. Unlike Aryn that was still sleeping or unconscious, Elora opened her eyes and with a speed unexpected, she reached out with her right hand and gripped Tion hard by the throat.
"W-who are you?" she asked in a husky whispery voice.
"Let him go dear, you are not in any danger from us." Scarlet said and the woman tilted her head over, looking at Scarlet with cold brown eyes.
"Ho-how?" she struggled to talk, loosening the grip on Tion's throat.
"How do I know your name?" Scarlet responded.
Elora nodded, and then she started looking around wildly for something, "Ryna," she shouted.
"Your daughter is here." Scarlet stepped to the side, allowing Elora to get her first look at her daughter who was laying still with her eyes closed.
Scarlet knew that some things they needed to talk about alone because they could not leave the four walls of this room. "Tion, please go personally and bring professor Sham, also explain the injuries and ask him to come with the proper medication to deal with the illness. Caution him on privacy, until my guests are ready to leave the castle I do not want their presence to be public business. Give that last command to Gertrude and the other guards."
"And your family?" he asked.
"I will speak to them later." she assured him.
"I will send someone else to take my place." he said and he turned around to leave.
"No, that's not necessary." she told him. Seeing the unwilling look in his eyes, she added on, "But if it makes you feel better, someone can stand outside the door." She would simply enact a sound barrier in the room to maintain the privacy of their conversation.
With Tion gone, she sat down in one of the four chairs in the treatment room and waited patiently for Elora to caress Aryn's face as she cried. She handed her a bottle of water and looked at the time. One minute had gone by while Elora cried.
"Here, drink some, we do not have a lot of time before the doctor gets here so let's put our cards on the table. Do you know Maddox?"
Elora gasped, and she placed her hand over her chest, "My brother, how could I forget? Where is he? What happened to him?"
Scarlet shook her head and expressed her most sincere regrets through her grey eyes. "I am sorry," she said, "He passed away many months ago."
"Noooo," Elora placed her hands on her head and she let out a bitter wail. "No, please no." she added and she broke into a very heartbroken cry. Scarlet came closer and patted Elora's back but the woman shrugged her hand away. She was completely inconsolable.
Over one hundred years of grief rained down Elora's eyes in the form of salty tears and high pitched screams. If Scarlet had not enacted sound barriers, her guards would come charging in here with the expectation of danger.
The need to talk was urgent with every passing second and even though Scarlet felt bad for Elora, she had other urgent issues to further discuss with her in this borrowed time.