The Quarry

[Rage Menelas]

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Charlie came to in a medical cocoon on his ship. Someone had very thoughtfully wrapped him up in the emergency webbing, which was exactly what he needed. For all the little alien knew it had saved his life. Saar'floe was designed to be self-repairing (and that certainly extended to the crew as well). All that was generally needed was time to repair any level of damage except for the most catastrophic.

Charlie had no idea how long he had been out though. His head hurt but aside from that minor inconvenience all his body parts seemed to be intact and functioning. He looked around for his apprentice. Ryan was nowhere to be seen. He stood up, parted the webbing from him, and accessed the ship system. It sprang to life and quickly appraised him of its condition.

The ship system had immediately gone into hibernation stasis after the crash-landing, analyzing its most crucial components, isolating areas of concern. This had taken six hours and some change. Next it prioritized its workload and started on repairs. That was thirty-six hours ago and all systems were now on-line and functional.

That was good news. Charlie asked the system to check for life-signs on the ship. He was the only one. That was bad news. Now where had that silly little apprentice of his gotten off to?