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inch of her. Acwel
stepped in front of the Bone Eater, Slicer drawn, ready to kill
it.
    “Stop! I’m not hurt.” She jumped up and pushed her
men out of the way and then grabbed Acwel’s arm. “I’m just stunned,
that’s all. Could you see if we have any of this one’s blood
samples left?” she asked him.
    He nodded, but looked down at the woman. “She does
have nice eyes.” Moving to the fridge where their supplies and
samples were kept Acwel looked for the blood.
    “Volund, really, I’m fine.” She rubbed his arms as
they encircled around her and smiled up at him. She knew this
pregnancy would be hardest on him. “Jaxxon, in the cabinet over
there, you’ll find my fathers and mothers personal files. Pull them
for me, please.” She turned to face him. “I know this is going to
sound crazy, but I need you to do this because I can’t. There
should be computerized blood samples for both my parents our
computers can run tests on. Those will show their DNA codes. I need
you to take her blood sample, break it down, and compare it to my
mom’s.”
    “Why? Do you think she can be changed back?” Jaxxon
frowned and took the records from the cabinet along with the blood
sample Acwel handed him.
    “I don’t know about that, but she is changing. It’s
just a question of whether or not she’ll be fully human again.
Volund, I’m going to need x-rays. I want to see what’s going on
inside of her and if she will be able to tolerate our food. If not,
we’ll still need to feed her intravenously.”
    Venus walked over to the gurney and focused on the
Bone Eater.
    The woman lay tense, and her fingers instead of claws
tapped on the gurney.
    “When I was a child, my mother used to take me to
visit her mother and father.” Smiling, Venus waited as Badden
grabbed a chair for her and placed it by the gurney. “Thanks.” She
turned her attention back to the woman she believed was her
Gram.
    “My Gram, or Belinda, would make these wonderful
cookies for me every time I visited. My mother and father are dead
now.” Venus held Gram’s gaze. “Randle killed them both. He was
their lab technician and he betrayed all of us.” She shifted in the
chair and inched it closer to the gurney.
    Tears slipped down the changing woman’s face, another
sign of progress and that she’d understood her daughter was
dead.
    “I was twenty one when they were murdered, and I’ve
been alone for so long it’s hard to adjust to having company.” She
glanced over at Jaxxon, who still worked on the blood samples. He
somehow sensed her gaze and looked up from his work to smile at
her.
    “Do you need something?” he asked, preparing to get
up.
    “I’m fine,” she replied. “Just talking to my new
friend here. Volund, do you have the x-ray machine yet?”
    He kissed her from behind before he glided it in
front of her. He took the handheld scanner and moved it down the
patient’s body. He stopped at the creature’s stomach and frowned.
“Her organs are changing a little faster than we believed they
would, but it’s still slow.” He shrugged. “She should be able to
eat something now as long as it’s simple fare. It’s just as Dr.
Zeon described in the journal, but I believe her being older has
slowed the process. I don’t know how she is even awake with all the
pain she must be going through.”
    “Acwel, could you come here? There has to be some
mistake in this reading.” Jaxxon frowned, picked up the computer
files, and then glanced back at a paper spat out by the
printer.
    She would have laughed at his comical expression and
confusion, but the enormity of who they had on the table hit her as
did a movement in her belly. Slowly, she stood, running her hands
over her belly and walked over to the gurney. Tears welled, and her
hand trembled as she placed it on her grandmother’s cheek.
    “Gram,” she whispered before the room began to darken
and she heard Volund yell her name.

Chapter Seven
     
    The high hum of the ship