32Finally, Scott went to the medicenter. He had his orders, and he had nowhere else to go. He couldn't get to the Red prisoners, so he might as well get his checkup out of the way.
The door swept open and he crossed the threshold. Looking to his left, he saw the privacy curtain around Donna's bed, pulled all the way around.
On the far side of the room, Nurse Tourmal looked up from a patient and grinned. "Corporal Scott!" He adjusted the antigrav I.V. bag floating alongside the patient and hurried over. "Good to see you. Glad you could make it."
Scott wasn't in the mood for pleasantries. "I didn't have much choice. Major Perseid and Captain Rexis both ordered me down here."
"I'm sure they had a good reason." Tourmal kept grinning and rocked on the balls of his feet. "I think
