I closed my eyes as darkness embraced me.
After several hours, my eyes fluttered open. Blinking several times, I tried to focus. The wall behind me held a large dark metal rack of guns and armor. These guns didn’t look like the laser guns that I had seen the aliens carrying. They were the size of assault rifles with scopes. Denman was crouched next to me holding a scalpel.
“Be very still so I don’t cut something that can’t be repaired. I need to neutralize the poison that he shot you with.”
Frowning, I bit my lip as he dug the scalpel into my chest. Tears squeezed from my eyes as I focused on breathing. “I think you mean remove the poison.”
He dropped a piece of the scorpion creature into a mason jar and dug the tweezers inside the open wound. “Now, it is neutralized. I need them to fi
