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later, and she wanted answers about what had happened to Sorvar. The only way she would get them was to go to Medical.
    “Thank you,” she said as she took the male’s hand. The scales of his palm were surprisingly soft and smooth, and his hand was cool against her much warmer skin.
    He helped her off the floor and led the way to the lift. Tina watched blood drip from her hand to the floor of the lift, leaving a wet shiny puddle.
    She wasn’t human anymore. Seeing the scales, her longer, redder hair and greener eyes hadn’t made it sink in, but this, the black blood flowing down her hand, forced the knowledge into her like the inescapable reality of test results. Results didn’t lie, and neither did her blood.
    Tina didn’t know how she felt about her new status as less than human. Conflicted was the best she could come up with. In fact, she felt conflicted about a lot. She’d expected Sorvar to be a domineering arrogant ass, and he’d shown signs that he could be like that, but he’d also shown her a tender emotional side of him that had hit her right in the chest. Something about a man showing his vulnerabilities never failed to stir up her emotions.
    They stepped off the lift, and she followed the males carrying Sorvar down a corridor to Medical. Sorvar’s ship was similar in some ways to the other ships Tina had been on—utilitarian, plain, and huge. The corridor was far wider than any other she’d been in, Tina assumed it was to make room for the Morgath’s wings. The doors were all double width—wings, again—and the metal under their feet was hard and resistant to scratches from their lethal claws. But it looked unfinished with all the bare wiring.
    Tina’s mouth dropped open when she entered the medical bay of the Morgath’s ship. It was... small. There were only two tables, but it was well appointed with equipment she had no problems identifying.
    The male who helped her up tried to hustle her towards one of the tables, but she refused to go until the two males carrying Sorvar had lifted him onto the second table. They placed him face down and released his wings the minute they settled him. Only then did Tina walk over to the other table and settle onto it.
    “Tell me what happened while I fix your arm,” the male said.
    The ship continued to shudder around them, occasionally jolting her as he cleaned the blood from her arm with a dermal cleanser. Tina explained to him what had happened, keeping her opinions and observations to herself. Something about this male unsettled her. She was almost finished with her recount when he set about healing the deep punctures in her arm with a small laser device.
    Tina gritted her teeth at the burning pain as the laser cauterised the small wounds. Gah! He was barbaric! Didn’t they have regeneration pads?
    “You know... humans are prone to infection from burns as well as wounds. You would have been better off stitching the wounds closed,” she gasped as he moved the device on to the next wound.
    He stared at her with unblinking deep yellow eyes before returning his gaze to her arm. “There shouldn’t be any problem now you have mated. Morgath bodies are inhospitable to infection, but your skin is very soft, so you might scar. The medics at the palace should be able to do something about it when you get there, but I do not have the facilities on the ship to deal with it.”
    He turned and barked something in Morgathian to the two other males so fast that she couldn’t understand him, then turned back to finish with her arm. Tina gritted her teeth and tried not to scream. The ship shuddered, worse than before, and an alarm started to blare, the lights flicking from orange to red.
    “I need a sample of your blood for comparison,” the male said.
    She looked up at the male she’d assumed was the medic as one of the other males joined them with a blood extractor in his hands. “It’s fine, please take whatever you need to find out what’s happened to