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The helmet turned minutely to me and then back again.
“I thought nothing happened between you two?” he said.
I turned to look at Egara and a smile rose to my lips.
“The most natural thing in the world happened between us. Even in this place, it’s possible to love.”
The leader reached into his back pocket.
His weapon, I thought. He’s reaching for his weapon.
“Please,” I said. “Don’t hurt him.”
The leader surprised me when he came out with a small first aid kit.
“It’s not much,” he said. “But it’s all I have. It might tide him over for a little while. But you’re going to need to get him to a hospital soon.”
At first, I didn’t take the first aid kit.
Was it a trick?
Then, slowly, I reached out to take it.
He made no sudden movements and didn’t draw any other weapons.
I sat down, opened the first aid box, and set to work giving him the medicine.
The leader watched us for a moment and then turned to leave, following our tracks back toward the fallen monster.
“Where are you going?” I said, fearing he might be heading to fetch more of his men.
“To tell my men we’re heading back to the prison… without any prisoners,” he said.
I couldn’t leave it at that.
I hated ambiguous endings and this one was ripe.
“Why are you doing this?” I said. “Why are you helping us?”
“I wouldn’t say leaving you out here in the middle of a desert is exactly helping you,” the leader said. “But if you’re telling the truth and you really are in love, perhaps you’ll find a way to escape the planet after all.”
With that, he turned and left.
Speechless, I continued to administer the medicine under Egara’s watchful gaze.
It was alien medicine and I had no idea what I was doing.
I shot him with so many needles I thought he might suffer from acute blood loss.
It was disheartening to see none of it seemed to help him.
“Okay,” he said, easing back, “that’s it.”
“No. There must be something else here I can give you.”
He nodded.
“There is one more medicine you can give me. The most valuable medicine.”
