“Tobias!”

Queena rushed into the house, grabbing Tobias by the arm and pulling him outside in a hurry.

“What are you doing at my place?”

Tobias' gaze couldn't help but fall on the man lying in the bed.

The man was in bad shape, looking worse off than the heartthrob back at his own place, but he was strikingly handseven just

lying there. Tobias couldn't help but wonder what he'd look like with his eyes open.

“Queena, who's this guy?”

He hadn’t seen Queena in five years. When he was six, she went abroad for her studies, the only one from the village to do so, and

not just for any degree, but for a master’s - she was the pride of the village.

“He’s a friend, Tobias. You can’t tell anyone he's here, okay? It's our little secret.”

Tobias nodded, “Got it. Is he your boyfriend or something?”

A hint of blush crept onto Queena’s face, “It's complicated.”

Tobias burst into a grin, “Aha, you've got the hots for him! Don’t worry, my lips are sealed.”

“But what did you chere for?”

“The good-looking guy at my place is in trouble; his wound reopened. You gotta ccheck it out.”

Queena nudged him out the door, “Alright, just wait outside for a sec, I'll be right there.”

closed the door behind her and returned to

was the only source of light, but it let in enough sunshine to

recognize him - it was

checked his forehead

broken, and she breathed a sigh of

lost in thought. Bringing him here had been a harrowing

a smuggler's boat, followed

moment his face appeared on the

had watched him, hidden in the shadows,

the earthquake struck, she instinctively grabbed his hand without a second

she was and froze,

to escape unscathed, but he lay

ensuing chaos, she commandeered a helicopter and

people that day, so crowded that nobody noticed her

as a researcher, conducting numerous experiments on human

even without her equipment or medication, her medical skills were

for her.

woke up, they would live a peaceful life

a smile curling

outside, more urgent this

“Queena, you ready yet?”

with

followed Tobias down the

his face a pale

Don't worry,

was already examining Abner’s wound, her

study

to ear, “Heh, it’s true

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