Memoirs of Kitty Siam Ch. 45

I extended an invitation to Megyn to share my hut as I had an extra bed that was quite comfortable, and after all, the hut was fit for royalty. She had a good laugh at the "royalty" part. Megyn smiled and agreed to take me up on my offer. When we got back to my hut I lit a few candles and showed my guest around. We did not have many modern conveniences, but then we were not exactly living in a cave either. Megyn asked about the Tenshi again but this time formed the question so as to ask why I had such a ship at my disposal but there was no electricity in the village.

Megyn seemed uncomfortable undressing in front of me while the candles were lit and she asked if it was ok to blow them out. I had no objection so I blew them out for her. Once the light was gone I used my wardrobe device and removed my flight suit that I had spent way too much time in. I dressed in a simple white cotton nightgown since I did not want to make my guest uncomfortable by lounging around naked. As we prepared ourselves for bed I answered Megyn's question about the electricity by telling her the story of where the villagers come from and how we came to be here. I was thankful that she did not press the issue to ask how I came to be with the villagers from Angkor.

I could not help but watch as Megyn removed her uniform and placed it neatly on a wooden table near by. I offered her a nightgown similar to mine and she accepted. Even though she could not see me in the darkness, I could see her quite well. She was a strong woman equal to me in height but carried a bit more weight than me and was a bit wider at the chest and hips. As I studied her I could see where the weight difference was, it was in her muscles. Even in the darkness I could tell that her strength could rival most of the men in my village and in the military's tent city. I thought at first that perhaps being so muscular was what caused her to be so shy about her body in public and why she preferred undressing in the dark in my hut.

Once Megyn turned to face me in the dark I could clearly see the reason for her discomfort. The left side of her body from her full heavy breasts down to her knees was badly scarred as if from burns she had received of the course of her career. Her torso was covered with many scars from numerous surgeries from injuries sustained in fierce battles. Even in the dark she turned quickly away from me as if there might be a glint of light that would expose her disfigurement. I recognized this and tried to put her at ease by telling her that there was nothing to worry about and she can trust me not to say anything.

As my words hit home she gasped and asked if I could see her in the dark. When out of embarrassment she confronted me, I confessed that I could see her and upon hearing my reply she quickly covered up by pulling the sheet off the bed. I stood up and crossed the room and took the sheet from her and offered her the nightgown as a replacement for the sheet. I asked her to put it on and then we can sort all of this out. I could feel the strong woman trembling as she took the nightgown from my hand and slipped it on. Once she was dressed I lit one of the candles and asked her to sit on the bed. I took up a position opposite her on Neko's bed and once again reassured her everything was ok.

She was really upset that I had seen her and I felt bad about the way I had handled the whole situation. As we stared at each other she was the first to break the silence as her trembling voice asked how I could see her so well in the dark. I felt that if we were going to trust each other I had to show something of myself to make up for my earlier mistake. I moved closer to her with the candle in my hand and asked her to watch my eyes closely. Once I had her staring at my eyes I changed them from dark brown to cat's eye green and as my eyes changed they appeared to be glowing slightly in the candlelight. At first she was startled at the sudden change, but then she grew curious and looked closer. She was so close as she examined my eyes that I could feel her warm breath on my cheek, but I remained still and let her examine my eyes for as long as she felt was necessary.

I could tell that she did not know what to make of the transformation, but at least she accepted the fact that she knew something about me that she thought that no one else knew. Well, no one except the entire village but I was not going to tell her that. I did feel bad so I concluded that there was only one way to sort all of this out. I offered her a pair of my sandals and urged her to come with me. She put on the sandals but hesitated a bit until I took her hand and pulled gently. Of course she was strong enough that she could have resisted and thrown me around the room like a doll, but in the end she did stand and follow me.

We did not speak as we made our way to the temple. There were several villagers and one of the monks on the temple plateau when we arrived. They decided to spend the night there in case there were any medical problems with our new arrivals. When I asked them to vacate the temple they did not question my request or hesitate, they just responded, "Yes Priestess" and made their way back toward the village. Once they were gone I turned to Megyn, asked her to remove her nightgown and stretch out on her back on the altar. She offered a bit of resistance, while I gently guided her onto the altar and helped her get comfy. She had seen the healing beam in action when we used it on her injured crewmembers so I think she understood where all of this was leading, and it was then that I felt her truly begin to trust me.

I knew that this would be a detailed and time consuming process and the procedure that I was about to perform was well above capabilities of the simple icon based system that the monks normally used, and like I did with Diya's head injury at the Pa'u shrine, I would need to use the command console for what I needed to do. Once I had the console set up the way I wanted it I asked Megyn to relax and allow the healing beam to put her to sleep. I activated the beam and let it do its work, and within a few seconds she was out.

Now that I did not have to worry about alarming her, I went ahead and began a detailed full body scan. In a few minutes the console's monitor showed a detailed representation of Megyn's body. There were a few areas listed in red as being possible life threatening, the items listed in yellow were seven screens long, and the green areas were just as long as the yellow. I knew Megyn and I had a long night ahead of us.

First I focused on the red areas, the most pressing of those items being a weakness in her aorta. As I zoomed in on the area in question I could see that she had been injured in this area before and the injury had been repaired by less than modern means. Most likely she had emergency surgery in some Marine Corp field hospital. The second troublesome item was an aneurism on the left side of her brain under as carbon fiber synthetic skull plate under her short red hair that had probably been installed by the same people that repaired her aorta.

This was delicate work for a human surgeon but not so much for the automated healing systems left behind by the Annunaki. It was a time consuming process and both items took many passes by the obelisk's healing beam. After almost two hours the aortic deficiency was corrected, and her synthetic skull section was removed and replaced by real human bone that was created from her own DNA and grown in place. While her damaged skull area was reforming, the aneurism below it was easily repaired. As the neurological repairs were finishing up a side note appeared on the console that asked me to advise the patient that she may still have some headaches for a few days but they would not be as severe as the ones she had been experiencing since the injury occurred.

Next I turned my attention to the areas in yellow, which were numerous, but none life threatening, but quite a few of them had to be causing her pain on a regular basis. Many items needed addressed under the skin before I began treating her scars. Her ribs had been shattered and many of them were sectioned together with screws and titanium plates. Some of the screws were exposed and appeared to be rubbing against soft tissue every time she would move. Just like the skull section I removed the titanium with the healing beam and grew new ribs where the metal had been removed. I also did the same with her titanium hip replacement. I was surprised with the amount of damage to her pelvis that she was able to walk so well with an implanted hip that had been installed without the damaged areas being fully cut away first.

Her chest had been injured on two separate occasions and during the reconstruction the surgeons implanted two synthetic breast implants... of course when the implants were installed, she was given two different sizes, which were not even close to being the same shape and size. The barbarians even removed her nipples, though on second thought, with the amount of damage she sustained, they might not have been salvageable after all.

Once I removed her implants and cleaned up the deep scaring around where her breasts would have been I had the healing system read her DNA and reproduce her breasts in the same shape and size they would have been before she was injured. I have to say that in her younger days she was a magnificent looking woman, of course now that she was being restored to her pre injured state, she was beginning to look like a fifty two year old woman with the body of a thirty year old. I say that because that is how far back the healing system had to regress her features to remove all of the burn and surgical scars from her torso and upper thighs. After six hours on the altar I was able to get all of the red and yellow areas cleaned up but there was not enough time to address the areas in green on the console's monitor. Later on I would tell her about the green areas and ask her if she wanted to have them addressed as well. I felt that I owed her that much after all the pain and grief she had endured during her career for the PGC and the people of Earth.

While she was still sleeping I used my wardrobe device to dress her in the nightgown that I had offered her earlier. She would sleep for a few more hours, and while she slept I kept watch over her until one of the monks and a few of the villagers arrived to clean and ready the temple for morning prayers. Megyn was still sleeping so I asked several of the villagers to carry her back to my hut on a litter. After all the repairs I had made to her body, she would need to take it easy for a few days while some of the deep tissue continued to repair its self naturally.

I had gone out of my way to take care of Colonel Connors and for good reason, she was a creature of duty with a long distinguished military history and given my military adventures on Galora, I admired what she had accomplished as a woman and as a warrior.

Second I needed a friend that was not from the village and we seemed to be getting along so well. Do not take this the wrong way, I loved my villagers but they looked at me as their Princess and Priestess, and that was fine but I was getting bored with all of the submissiveness that they had shown to me. Finding a friend among the crew of the Shinawatra was impossible as they all seen me as a prissy princess that was nothing more than a royal teenage brat. Though I was now in my early twenties, my genetic makeup kept me looking as if I were still in my late teens.

Third, she out ranked that idiot Colonel Danvers, and I needed someone in charge of the military people from Earth that knew how to do more than pass out tents, cots, blankets, uniforms, boots, and military grade condoms.