Carinae Sector: 01 - Traders' Scourge - Part 2 - Maveen Offer Read Online Free PDF

even teeth.
    Steve paused as he regarded the impassive alien, and noticed that the alien’s blue and grey face was covered on the left side with ornate gold tattoos surrounded by stretches of blackened skin.
    Steve placed the helmet on the deck and pointed to himself. ‘Steve.’
    Garendestat lifted his good arm, now gloveless with only three fingers present rather than four, and replied. ‘Garendestat.’
    Steve showed that he understood Garendestat by now pointing at him and replying ‘Garendestat’. Then Steve looked at Rick and who now also stated his name.
    Samantha was watching the alien and trying to evaluate the injuries and illness that Garendestat must be affected by. First things first she decided, as she reached for two bottles of distilled water, and a tray full of gauze and various tubes of ointment.
    ‘Steve, can you introduce Rebecca and me so we can tend to him please?’
    Steve called the ladies to stand in front of Garendestat and in moments he introduced them. He asked Rick to stand back and the ladies slowly moved in front of Garendestat and started to tend to his injuries. Rebecca held up an unopened cold bottle of distilled water and made a drinking motion, as Garendestat took a grip on the bottle with his good hand. Rebecca then took the cap off and Garendestat took a slow drink of water.
    Samantha took out a tube of antiseptic burn cream with anaesthetic and held it in front of Garendestat, who said something she did not understand and then nodded. Samantha carefully applied a small amount of the cream to areas of skin not affected by the black discoloration around the ornate tattoos. She then proceeded to watch the skin areas closely, before she indicated the broken left arm and made a breaking movement with her two hands. Samantha then slowly spoke a simple sentence.
    ‘Garendestat, you have a broken arm.’
    Garendestat flinched and again slowly said something she did not understand, before once again accessing the covered keypad on the front of his space suit. Three more clicks were evident from the both sides of the space suit, as the collars around the both shoulders and left glove of the spacesuit were now released.
    Steve helped the two ladies carefully lift Garendestat’s injured arm, and first take off the glove, before they carefully straightened the left arm, and slowly started to slide the detached arm of the space suit down. Garendestat gave a few grimaces and on one occasion a groan of pain, during which the humans stopped immediately and did not restart movement until the Trader nodded again for them to proceed.
    Garendestat settled back against the tool chest after both suit arms were taken off and took another slow drink of water. He decided that two human medical crew members tending his injuries must be females, and the lighter skinned one must be the mate of Steve.
    The Trader was impressed with the caring nature of the humans, and appreciated how they were trying to help him, as he placed the water bottle on deck for a moment. He then slowly took one of Steve’s arms with his good hand and thanked him in his own language.
    ‘Steve, y Garendestat doreme ka utta choi huine.’
    And then Garendestat gave a small nod in his suit and reached over to pick up the water bottle again. Samantha witnessed the whole exchange as she first carefully felt along Garendestat’s massive good arm and smiled.
    ‘Steve, that looks like a formal thank you for saving my life to me.’
    Steve was momentarily nonplussed, but responded.
    ‘Garendestat, you are most welcome.
    He then gave Garendestat a solid pat on the shoulder like when he had been with him underwater.
    Samantha looked up at the skin test area again as she now very carefully checked Garendestat’s broken arm.
    ‘Rebecca the standard antiseptic burn cream looks okay to me, we will avoid any antibiotics of course as Garendestat’s physiology will be quite different to our own.’
    Rebecca started carefully applying the