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at the
marketplace.”
    Aya didn’t care to correct his assumption that
Aston was her boyfriend, she was still entranced by the fact that
he suddenly spoke English. She was looking up at him from her
sitting position with her arms crossed and her eyebrows creased
together. “Who are you?”
    “It doesn’t matter who I am. All that matters is
who you are.” He paused but didn’t break the deep eye contact with
her. “I know you are a good person, Aya. I saw it in your eyes the
first time you looked at me. You’re not someone who leaves a man to
die.” Kato’s voice was so different now. Calm and pleading, and
with the familiar melody of English making him seem more like a
friend than a Masi warrior.
    Aya was relieved she could express herself more
freely in a language she was much more familiar with than
Spiri.
    “I can’t touch him. I won’t!” She pressed her
lips into a hard line.
    Kato’s head fell forward. “Please, Aya,” he
begged.
    She snorted. “You want me to help him back to
strength so he can rape me?”
    Kato ran a hand through his hair and then he
grabbed one of Aya’s hands and bent down in front of her. “Can you
at least tell me how to do it? That way you won’t touch him.”
    Aya felt conflicted. She was seriously afraid of
Jonul, but Kato was right, he really needed stitches, and she did
pledge to help all in need of healing when she became a nurse.
    Aya leaned forward so her nose almost touched
Kato’s and with gritted teeth she hissed, “If that monster wakes
tomorrow and rapes me, I will find you and kill you… do you
understand?”
    Kato eyes widened and his mouth opened. He was
holding his breath and then he pulled back a little, closing his
eyes like he was restraining himself from saying or doing
anything.
    “If I do this, you have to let me go.”
    Kato shook his head and got back up to a
standing position in front of the chair Aya was sitting in. “I
can’t do that.”
    “Why not?” Aya hissed.
    “Because helping another man’s slave to escape
will get me killed… and even if I did help you, you wouldn’t get
far. The area is crawling with other warriors and they would catch
you and they would…” He didn’t finish his sentence but they both
knew what he was hinting at: rape, murder, and slavery.
    Aya swallowed hard. “Then I want something
else.”
    “What?” He said frustrated.
    “Information. You will tell me everything I want
to know.”
    Kato crossed his arms. “I’ll answer five
questions,” he said and there was a hint of a smile on his
face.
    “Ten!” Aya pushed her jaw forward, signaling
that it was all or nothing.
    “Okay, whatever, just get going before he bleeds
to death.”
    “My first question is, what happened to
Aston?”
    “I’ll tell you after you’ve helped me,” Kato
said, but Aya wouldn’t hear of it.
    “You’ll tell me now!” she demanded.
    Kato looked cross and snapped his answer at her:
“Your boyfriend is injured and in the infirmary with the
healer.”
    Aya sighed with relief that Aston was still
alive. “Will he survive?”
    “Is that question number two?” Kato asked and
looked annoyed.
    “No! It’s still question one, and you better
stop with that attitude or you can find someone else to help
you.
    “Yes, he’ll survive his injuries.”
    Satisfied for now, Aya took the medical kit and
walked to the doorway of Jonul’s bedroom. She didn’t enter until
Kato did, and even then she kept her distance while guiding him
through the steps.
    Kato couldn’t thread the needle, he was too
nervous; Aya took pity on him and did it.
    “Can you hold him steady so he doesn’t move
while I stitch him together?” Kato asked.
    “No, I told you, I won’t touch him,” she
growled.
    Kato growled back, “So how do you suggest I keep
him still?”
    “He looks still to me,” Aya pointed out.
    “Yes, but that’s because I haven’t started yet.
What happens when he feels a needle going in and out of his
skin?”
    Aya