Chapter 25 - Recovery (2) (1/2)
”Nice to meet you miss Terra Williams, my name is Dax and I will act as you physician until you are fully recovered. I expect this whole process to take about a 20 days, but that is all dependent on your requests and cooperation, and as such i hope we can get along for that time.”
”So you plan to leech of my dad for the next 20 days, then run away?”
”I'll start the examination now, excuse me”
Completely ignoring Terra's sarcastic remarks, Dax went over to her bed and sat down at her bedside.
”I'll need inspect your wounds, let's start with your eyes, how did that happen?”
”I blew myself up”
”With what exactly?”
”Some kind of secure metal container, it had a anti tampering circuit that I activated, making it blow up about half a meter from my face”
”So micro shrapnel is most likely still present, any pain or irritation in the scar tissue?”
”Yeah it f.u.c.k.i.n.g hurts! sometime it feels like my face is on fire and rubbed in glass shards, do you have any idea how that feels!?”
”So severe nerve damage, yeah i know how that feels, do you also get that itch that slowly turns into a burning sensation?”
”How the hell do you?..”
”Miss Terra, Dax has a eye patch over his left eye. Scarring around his eye looks real so I'm guessing it's missing completely”
”Ah, thank you Elise…”
As the loyal maid Elise served as Terra's eyes her aggression turned down slightly.
”I need to take a look, would you please allow me remove the bandages?”
”Don't touch me”
Holding up her hand defencefly Terra warned Dax in a steen voice against touching her, as he heard the slight sound of metal scraping behind him, leeding Dax to believe Elise had drawn some kind of bladed weapon. Sighing deeply, Dax slowly backed off and turned to Elise to see she had a small dagger in hand.
”What do you plan to do with that my dear maid?”
”It's time for you to leave, I nor the young lady approve of you.”
”Is it because I look like a demonkin?”
”Of course it isn't! You clearly have no medical knowledge and is just trying to exploit the young lady!”
(So for once this isn't a race issue…)
”It seems you're both more or less doubting my abilities? I'm hurt, ICI prep the reaper mask for open protocol interfacing”
[PATCHING, STANDBY]
While unattaching his mask from his belt, Dax instructed ICI to prepare for a link to Terra. Sadly the loyal maid saw that as an attempt on her masters life, and decided to quickly, almost instantly moving to stab Dax in the chest. As Elise pieced Dax's t shirt he took advantage of Terra's confusion and placed his mask on her face.
”Nice stab Elise, but if I shifted myself about 6 centimeters to the left the blade would have a chance of it hitting your master”
”What the f.u.c.k are you made off?”
”What the hell did you just put on my face?”
”One at a time my lady's. My skin is the result of a series of bad choices in women, and I just started the first step of your recovery my sweet and unwilling patent~”
The same time as Elise was completing about her inability to kill Dax, and Terra was freaking out over having some unknown thing placed over her face, Russell arrived, having finished the last of his paperwork.
”What the f.u.c.k is going on in here!?”
”A unwilling patient and observer. But I have results, ICI active direct mind melt, but bypass optical nerves and interface directly to the occipital lobe.”
[DIALING GUARDIAN 47 REAPER PERSONAL SENSOR UNIT, OPTICAL NERVE BYPASS CONFIRMED. LIMITED MIND MELT IN EFFECT - HOLDING AT PATTEN GREEN, OPERATION CONFIRMED]
”Eh? is that you dad?”
With a crackling voice Terra stopped trying to remove the mask stuck to her face, as ICI fed data directly to her occipital lobe she saw for the first time in well over a year.
”What did you do Dax?”
”I made my mask into her eyes, this is a extremely short term solution but I figured that it would gain my unwilling and sassy patients trust. Now miss Terra can we continue with the examination?”
”A-ah that's you Dax, Are you also missing a arm?”
As Terra turned her head towards Dax she finally noticed the state of her current physician.
”Yeah I lost my prosthetic arm just a bit ago, so I'll be making a new one over the next few days. Can I inspect your arm now?”
”Yeah sure, go ahead. And Elise you can stop trying to kill him now”
”Okay..”
Withdrawing Elise stopped trying to stab through Dax's skin, that after about a minute of trying with all her might had proved entirely ineffective.
”Elise please prepare a guest room for Dax, we'll talk about your treatment of my guest later. I just came to check on how things were going so I'll go back to my paperwork again.”
”Wait a second~ Viktor is not supposed to strain himself, so make sure he stays put”
”I'll go that. See you at breakfast tomorrow Dax and Terra”
Leaving a stern warning to the loyal maid, Russell left again to tackle his paperwork.
”I'll go prepare a room for our dear guest then, excuse me.”
”Actually I don't need that kind of room, insted can you show my drones to some kind of unused storage room? The colder the better.”
”Understood, excuse me”
Having received Dax's instructions, the pacified maid left Terra and Dax behind and led the strange looking golems outside, to a unused storage room next to the mansions very own training field.
”You can use this room- wait why am I talking to golems?”
[Thank you~ That'll be all tonight]
Spooking the nervus maid, one of the drones spoke exactly like Dax as it answered her monologue.
”Hiyaa! Is that you Dax?”
[[[Not exactly~ they are me, I am me, but they are not me. Therefore we all are, but not alike and still the same~ Makes sense?]]]
This time all the drones answered in a precise stereo, while slowly approaching the now freaked out maid.
”What the f.u.c.k are you saying!?- Ah, I'm extremely sorry my dear guest, it seems I've gotten tired so please forgive me”