Page 19 of My Date is a Polymorph
“Because Hera told me how much the wounds hurt, and she didn’t have them front and back.”
“Oh, right.Because she was attacked in a car.”
Khytten nodded.“Yeah.That.You must have been in agony.”
“That does cover it.Learning that the blood loss led to a miscarriage was the worst part.Well, that and Worro trying to punch down the hospital.”
Khytten frowned.“Torenne didn’t mention that.She would have known.”
“She wasn’t there.I was at the public hospital.Not the expensive one.It was closest, and I couldn’t have afforded treatment there anyway.I was an apprentice for the teams.A trainee.The team's insurance didn’t cover me because I was injured off duty.”She gestured to her face.“This cost me my savings and down payment on a house.”
“But they didn’t fix it.Kritz’s nanites could have fixed it.”
“They are expensive, and I wasn’t a team member, remember?By the time I got a job at Z-Corp, it was considered a pre-existing condition.Treatment would have cost me eighty thousand credits, and I make sixty per year.Z-Corp doesn’t have a medical payment plan.I checked.”
Khytten sniffled and walked up to her and hugged her.“Can I help repair it?”
“Sure.”
Khytten paused.“It works best if you get it directly, but I know not everyone is comfortable with it.”
“Get ‘em out.”
Khytten grinned.
Keera snorted.“This might make it easier for you.”She shifted to a feminized version of Salat.
Khytten’s eyes were wide, and the next few minutes were silent aside from her increasingly heavy breathing until Keera lifted her head.“Enough?”
Khytten blinked and said, “Almost.”
A strong draw and the scrape of feline fangs and Khytten shuddered.Keera swallowed and shifted back to herself.
Hever looked at her and said, “Wow.That’s fast.They are fading.”
Keera touched her cheek.The raised ridges were fading away.“Thank you, Khytten.”
Khytten straightened her clothes.“My pleasure.Seriously.Can you do that in front of Salat?I have never seen a girl version of him before.”
“Maybe.”
Khytten said quietly, “If you had internal scarring, it should have reduced that as well.”
Hever jolted.“Wait.What?”
Keera patted Khytten’s cheek.“Thank you.I was worried about that.”
Khytten said, “Salat has me memorizing wound tracks, and yours were not good.”
“No, they were not.”
“Well, I couldn’t have helped you then, but I can help you now, so I did.”She wrinkled her nose.
Keera hugged the small, deadly dynamo.“Thank you.”Her com chimed.“And now I have to head up to my office to get ready for the meeting with Hera this afternoon.”
Khytten smiled.“You and Hera must talk a lot, considering.”
“What?Oh.No.My attack was way before I started here.I don’t think anyone outside of the medical areas knows about it.”
