Avalon

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The Other Side

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Another boring day of Pasadora County, Haitagen district. And just as it was boring it was also pretty horrid for someone living on the streets.

Not that Nate ever dreamt of cream castles and high towers. Although a modest place with roof and walls, with bed and food, was something he longed for.

Nathaniel Holler was an average guy in early thirties with dark brown mop of wild curls and crystal blue eyes. Some would even say he was the most beautiful thing while others would claim he looked average.

People from G-max-Fi Alpha system that resided on Albus-7 planet were rather stiff and reserved in their attitude towards everything and everyone. They didn't trust lots things and mostly believed and relied on personal experience.

However the new age folks were more and more like some of those who traveled from other galaxies.

All that new stuff coming in made it easier to get money for that same food he dreamed of when there was lesser streak of luck. And Nate was one to thank whatever powers in days like this.

He was having luck since first sun came up. And he got even more of it by the time the second sun rose.

All went splendid until he accidentally hit one of those "active points" that were positioned in places only sneaky folks like him would step on. At least he had taken most of valuable and compromising stuff to hideout before stepping onto one of those electric fields and flying into the air. His luck returned by bringing darkness.

But of course, he had to wake up on the hospital bed, dressed into that annoying cloth they called a "patient's suit". It was something incredibly humiliating and made it impossible for giving a dignified escape from the place.

Maybe for Nathan's luck he felt less than willing to try. He truly felt like burst into flames and dropped into total frost before being dumped in acid.

And that was the least of all. His head felt like after collision with a meteor and his chest felt like a spacecraft was parked onto it.

Only after few moments Nate became aware of his right arm being either completely numb or cut off, he didn't dare look yet. But something told it was most likely just numb.

But why?

Nate's eyes popped open. He looked down at his limb, cautiously and bit frightened.

It was still attached. Good.

But it was looking bad. Bruises looked especially terrifying and there was something silvery covering almost all of the length of it.

"Mr. Holler, nice to see you awake. How are you feeling?" A nurse materialized next to his bed all of a sudden, plunging Nate out of his musings. And they knew his name, the real one. Not good.

"I-I'm fine." He tried, voice hoarse and barely above weak whisper. The smiling nurse had enough brains to put a straw to his lips and mercy to have it pure water instead of one of those awful things they made of some weird powders.

"I'm nurse Jhia. You have some concussion and some deep bruises." She told and took the water away.

He tried to speak again, "What about my arm?" And this time it was only slightly above whisper.

"Don't worry, in a while will be okay. It's just some degree of burns and minor re-shaping." Was her supposedly calm answer. And with that nurse Jhia plugged cable into computer and downloaded his data into portable system. Then a vial was filled with his blood sample she'll take to lab and after that quickly checked something outside Nate's field of vision.