XIII. Sickbay
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In the end, Anjali was stuck in the sickbay aboard the Freedom’s Horizon for three standard days. Of course, she already felt well enough to get up after the first night, but Mikhail nixed that and insisted that she needed to rest until her injuries had healed and the nano-agents in her bloodstream had regenerated fully. And so Anjali found herself condemned to three days of boredom, stuck on a hard gurney in the barren sickbay.
To be fair, Mikhail stopped by and sat with her as often as he could. And he always made sure to stay with her at the start of the night cycle, so she wouldn’t have to fall asleep alone. And just before she fell asleep, Mikhail always told her that he loved her. And Anjali always responded with an “I love you” in return, because once she’d
