SetosDragonQueen

Chapter 2    A foul smell wafted to my nostrils. My eyes fluttered and I began gasping for fresh air. I sat up abruptly, however a feeling of vertigo overwhelmed me and I fell back onto the hard cot beneath me.    "Whoa! Miss, pleez be careful, yes?" said a strange voice, with a thick Tercian accent.    "Ow... Where am I?"    "Yous crasheded here on Coresa. Beat up, bad bad. Rest, rest!"    "Where is Jori?" I asked in a fearful tone.    "I assumes you mean tah hu-mans yous was with? Hes went to tah hu-mans hospital..." the way the small Terc man said the word human... Such disdain, such anger, such pain.    "Ugh... I need to find him.

Chapter 1    Red lights flashed and the entire ship trembled. The tremors intensified as I rolled out of my rack and slammed my head on the cold metal floor. I sat up slowly as I felt warmth running down the back of my neck.    "Captain... Ok?..." a voice from afar said in a distant, hushed, concerned tone.    My consciousness was wavering as I groaned with intensifying agony. The source of the voice got closer to me, kneeling down and leaning over me. Through my blurred vision all I could make out was a mass of matted blonde hair on a distinctly male head.    "Oh damn..." the voice said as I was lifted up into his arms.    "What.... A