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he noticed was how thin and frail she looked, as though she would break with a light squeeze. She was marked with dirt from head to toe. A dingy, piece of cloth clung to her like a second skin, barely covering her.
    He moved his gaze to her face. Her skin was pale but flawless, poutylips,ful and a tempting shade of pink, blond curling locks draped over her bare shoulders.The femaleshivered.
    “Who are you?” He ground out, final y pul ing himself from his stupor. He realized he was holding her upper body in his arms.When had he reached for her?
    At his booming voice her eyes flew open—if he wasn’t already on the ground he would have fal en to his knees—Sebastian was instantly lost. The ship fel away and there was only her. The blue of her eyes was indescribable, so light they unabashedly pul ed him in. No color imaginable compared. Her eyes turned pleading, for what? He didn’t know, but at that moment he would have given it to her.
    What was wrong with him?
    Too soon the color dul ed and her head lol ed before she slipped into unconsciousness. Sebastian,alarmed more than he should have been,felt for a pulse.
    Faint but stil there.
    The natural sounds of the ship slammed into him, as his surroundings came back into focus. Some of the crew had already gathered around, apparently repeating questions he hadn’t heard them ask. They looked at him expectantly, and at her with curiosity.
    Lifting her off the ground Sebastian took note of her weightlessness.
    “Back to your posts!” he ordered, and then carried her out of the room without another word. The crew must have been as shocked as he was, to find this tiny creature, because none of them moved at his command. He didn’t care, his only focus was getting her to the doctor—so he could find out how she was able to get onto his ship, not so he could see the vivid color of her eyes again.
    Racing down the hal he hardly noticed people stopped to stare at the stranger in his arms. The elevator made him impatient, moving slower than he remembered. He should get someone to look at it. Final y he reached the deck housing sickbay. A few more passageways and he was there, the doors parted for him and he careful y laid her on one of the cots.
    From a desk in the corner of the room, Dr. Oshwald looked up. He was a thin lengthy man from one of the short lived races.

    It seemed to take the doctor a moment to comprehend the sudden disturbance before he rushed to Sebastian’s side surveying the situation. His jaw dropped.
    “Where …? Who is …?” He studied her as Sebastian had, prickling his ire.
    In a pointed voice Sebastian replied. “I don’t know who she is. I just found her hiding in a maintenance compartment. She looks on the brink of death.”
    With a skil ful determination, Dr. Oshwald went to work while Sebastian leaned against the wal , arms crossed, and watched. The doctor came from a race of healers, their unique gifts worked on most but not al . Sebastian had no knowledge of the mechanics behind the doctor’s invaluable gift. He’d asked him about it once and the doctor had told him that it was like looking inside the body with his mind’s eye. Oshwald could search out the problem and then fix it as needed. That’s what he was doing now, searching through the female’s body, al the while intermediately checking her vitals in stony silence. Sebastian made his impatience known, and the doctor final y began his healing touch, placing a hand near her heart and the other at the crown of her head.
    He stayed like that for a lengthy time. The whole while she didn’t stir, didn’t make a sound, the breathing movements of her chest were light and barely noticeable.
    A sheen of sweat began to glisten on the doctor’s forehead. Final y he removed his hands, and slumped in his chair with obvious exhaustion. With effort, he wiped his forehead before he spoke. “She wil live.” The words were heavy. “If she’d been brought to me any later, there would have