Push the Pain Away

"I will see what I can do," the beast said calmly with a telepathic voice that they all could hear in their heads.

"Young human, you can hear me, right?" Dren asked, obviously walking closer to Ian. "I can move the injury from one body part to another…but it will not be very nice. You do not have problems in your…liver?"

"How the hell should I know?" Ian shook his head. He was very close to breaking down completely. "Just do it. I rely on my eyesight to be able to attack and defend."

"All right. Here it goes. It was such a low-brow move…I should have made them suffer. But Kortock finished one of them off and me and the female human, well, we used the technology of our species against them."

"So now you have to kill us both to be the only human alive who has killed a krobinnuti," Diana joked with nervousness in her voice.

"I'll consider it," Ian said. "Right now I couldn't kill Xav if I tried."

"Here…"