Lindsey Lindsey “What is that?” I asked, my eyes following the blue wand Rachel waved in front of my face. The headache I had from hearing all of the men’s stories, the horrors they’d faced at the hands of the Hive, had my head throbbing. I sat upon an examination table in the medical wing of Base 3. Kiel had left me, grudgingly, but Rachel herself had assured him she’d take care of me and see me safely back to his quarters. Only then did he kiss me and leave. Within seconds of the blue light moving back and forth, the pressure behind my left eye eased and the dull ache began to go away. The Earth woman tended to me with a skepticism I recognized. In her green medical uniform and her brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, she was all business. I’d messed with her planet, with the saf

