Kim Ye-jin was nervous. For months now, she had been forced to live with nearly unbearable pain. Her nerve staple, a Coalition-made mind control implant had come back online for the first time in years. Like a horrible shadow from the past, it had been feeding the Volkhan's propaganda directly into her thoughts and even her dreams. When it judged her insufficiently loyal to a dead man and his failed cause, it triggered the pain center in her brain, causing it to feel like every nerve ending in her body was on fire. She had managed to find some help in Natio Octavarium, but their doctors could do little more than mitigate the staple's worst effects, and even their efforts were bound to fail eventually as the staple adapted.
Ye-jin had found hope, however. Everyone she talked to directed her to Doc Holliday, and the man himself claimed to have experience with nerve staples. She was trying not to get too hopeful, however, in case even his efforts proved to be in vain. Even the slimmest hope was worth reaching for, though, and that hope brought her here to the Omega-49 system. Ahead on her shuttle's scope was Med Force One, right where she was told it would be. She opened a comm channel.
"Med Force One, this is Specialist Kim of the Fourth Octavarium Fleet aboard shuttle Eureka Two requesting clearance to dock. Doc Holliday is expecting me at Outpatient Services on a pre-arranged appointment."
