Chapter 3Zenon cut through the atmosphere and left the planet behind. It was easier to breathe now that they were on the way. The male wouldn’t get off the ship, and there was no going back.
“Captain.” Brox appeared in the doorway.
“Yes.”
“There’s been an incident.”
He put the ship on autopilot and turned to Anek who was in the co-pilot seat. “Monitor.”
Anek confirmed he’d heard the order, and Zenon got up to deal with whatever had Brox interrupting his work.
“In the clinic.”
The clinic on the ship wasn’t like a clinic on Negudade. It was a cot, and they had some tools to treat injuries, not much else. “What happened?”
“The male is sick.”
“Sick?” Did he also have water coming out of his eyes now?
“He is vomiting, and his mate is trying to care for him.”
Mate? Zenon kept moving a
