Chapter 28: Pity
October 2413
“Get up!”
Kirina’s sleep was interrupted by a Klingon brig guard yanking her out of bed by the arm.
“What?!” She screeched in her sudden consciousness. Her tone earned her a blow to the head, before she was allowed to drop to the floor.
“Get. Up. The Major has a task for you.” The guard stepped outside the cell and waited for Kirina to stand. “This way,” he said as she got to her feet. Despite the manner in which she was treated by the guard, Kirina was actually pleased by this turn of events. Were it not for Major Corrano’s interventions, it was likely that she’d have been killed already.
For whatever reason, the high-ranking KDF Officer saw fit to make use of her talents, and with each ‘task’ she completed, the more trust she earned. In Kirina’s mind, that meant one step closer to escape. More than that, however, this particular evening presented a rare opportunity.
As Kirina was led into the station’s sickbay, the task she was assigned became quite clear. There were several Romulan Republic officers cluttered around the room. Some were on biobeds, others the floor, and still others walking around. The Klingon doctors were either refusing to help, or not being allowed near their patients.
“What happened?” Kirina asked of anyone listening as she grabbed a medkit and went to work.
Several hours later, the sickbay was nearly clear of patients, most having been moved back to their ship after treatment. Kirina was running a medical scanner over the ranking officer’s head. Centurion Kaeni had explained that their ship was deployed to the Dyson Sphere as part of a joint Federation/Klingon/Romulan task force fighting the Voth. They sustained heavy damage and much of the crew was killed in the fighting.
Apparently the Klingons decided that Kaeni and her crew had fought with honor, and allowed them aboard the starbase for medical care and repairs. For Kirina, this was her way home.
“Are you experiencing any dizziness,” she asked as she applied the last of her treatment.
“Not anymore,” the Centurion replied, “Are we done here?”
“Almost finished. Just one more hypo,” She said, perhaps just slightly louder than necessary, “You just tell me if this feels better, okay?” Kaeni nodded and Kirina leaned in to press the hypo to the Centurion’s neck.
She whispered over the hiss of medication, “Do you have a shuttlecraft?”