Chapter 16Now: Koa
There’s a stereotype about island people, which is that we’ll take any excuse to just lie around doing nothing. Come to think of it, that’s a stereotype about pretty much all colonized people. Just remember, that bullshit started with the colonizers. Anyway, for a few days I was mostly lying around, appearing to do nothing, but very busy healing.
I did go out for a follow-up at the medical center where the incident response team’s attending had regular hours. She took a long look at me, poked and prodded some of the worst bruises, asked me to execute a few simple movements. “I can’t believe how unharmed you seem,” she said, after I was back in my clothes.
“Me either,” I admitted. “I’ve seen plenty of gunshot wounds and they always seemed really incapacitating. But I g
