The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 133

Chapter 133

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I feel like Quirin and I have leaped over a hurdle. Just the fact that he came to find me, to show me how much he wanted me, feels like a feat in and of itself.

‘And it didn’t even hurt this time,‘ Echo purrs. No, it didn’t, it just felt good.

‘We needed to adjust to him and now we have,’ she says, stretching in my mind like a damn cat.

Between her and the tingles that I’m still feeling in my body, I’m struggling to figure out this damn microscope. It was slow before Quirin came and distracted me in the best possible way, but now … I give up. There’s no way I can focus on this.

So, instead, I spend the rest of the afternoon putting the last of the supplies away and making sure that everything is organized in a way that I can get to it quickly if necessary.

“Wow, Luna, I’ve never seen so much stuff in here,” Deborah says, walking in.

“Well, I doubt we’ll need to replace most of it for a while, but it’s good to have it on hand if we need it,” I tell her.

“Do you know how to use all this stuff?” she asks, walking into the storage room and looking around.

“Yeah. I learned how to use it while I was taking classes and most of this I have practical knowledge of having been in my mother’s teaching hospital all my life.”

She turns and looks at me before looking at the items that I’ve put away.

“What classes taught you to use these things?” she asks.

“Well, I double majored in biology and chemistry. Both are key foundations for the medical and veterinarian degrees that I want to get.”

She turns and looks at me, frowning.

“What?” I ask.

“You double majored?”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t you just turn eighteen?”

Well, some I took before. It would have been a lot to do

you graduated high school?” she asks me slowly as if making sure she understands

to the same. classes and lectures since I was six. I mean really, it isn’t a big deal that I passed my first college test at ten I’d heard the same. lectures, watched the same videos, and participated in the classes for four years by then. By the time I

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when you passed your first college course?” she asks me.

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because what they teach in college builds on what you learn in high school, so those courses I didn’t pass until I fifteen and sixteen. But the biology ones were great, and I was able to start passing those classes

making me a bit uncomfortable, so I turn back

to use this equipment. I’ll know how to use the microscope once

didn’t come assembled?” she asks.

and since I was purchasing so many things, I thought I’d try to

says again, still

in here?”

shakes her head and looks around. “No, it seems

“Okay, good.”

to the packhouse. It’s getting close to dinner time.”

see you

the door. “You’re not at all what I

that good?”

smiling at me

as a warrior, but I’m chalking that

back to the microscope. Now that Echo has settled and my body has stopped humming with pleasure, it’s easier for

go get the samples I took from Tommy’s knee. I dab the swab with saline and then smear it on the slide before putting it under the microscope. I see the usual microorganisms that you’d expect to find on the skin, along with some bacteria that you’d expect, especially with a young pup who skinned his knee. There’s no infection,

take one of the scraping samples that I got off of his skin. This time when I put it under the microscope, there’s more of the trace elements that I didn’t

traces of silver

you?‘ Quirin’s voice floats into

time and realize that

hospital. I’ll head over

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of how this could happen. Is it intentional? Is it some sort of contamination on the pack lands that we need to handle immediately? Is it only on the pup playground and if so, do other pups have similar injuries

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