the game

luke

i'm back in the med bay. they ordered all of us back there so that we could plan for the future moments im guessing. apparently several of them have been in conversation with tigris who is anxious to end the level. that means more bodies to heal. My new friend is named Lux. She says that once they send us out to collect more we should be able to send me off to gain points. Or do something that will get me closer to Ken. To our goal as best friends. The guard.

I don't know the plan, but I soon realize I don't want to. Every time I think about the plan I think about Ken. And every time I think about Ken I think about Kelly. She has to be out there right now, I have no doubt. Somewhere out there doing something that could get her killed. They're all in that state. And I am here, helpless to help any of them. If I don't become a combat healer this is going to be the rest of my life. Other people taking care of my best friends. And I can't live with that.

My mind is on this when the bodies start coming in. It's more than I was expecting. Our orders were to heal them as fast as possible and send them back into action. Whatever this plan is, it sure is a blood bath. I wonder where everyone else has ended up.

There is a deep gash in the first victim I'm sent to heal. I know a mix of magical herbs that will work for him.

The next one has flesh burned away. Regrowing can be handled by an injection I researched a few months ago. I know where to find it, and luckily we have it in stock.

I don't stop. It's the first time I've ever felt so alive. Healing Alasians and giving them a second chance is a life saver for me. Some of them tell me about their lives or thank me when I heal them. Some of them are downright nasty but I imagine Ken was just as nasty as a child or worse. It's the first time I've gotten to genuinely smile in a long time. I'm finally helping people.

It's an odd thing to heal people that would otherwise regenerate. It makes me think of the humans. I wonder what they do? They don't have magic to save patients, they have the earth and each other. What would it be like to live with death on the line every day? When me being a doctor could be the end or the beginning of someone's chapter in life. I am that branch.

But it's not up to me if they live or not.

No one down on earth has that ability.