11 LILONA SHRAKAR came to my room not long after Veyada and Thayu had left. I hadn’t seen her for a while. She looked a lot healthier than she had when I had first seen her. Her hair, then, had been dull and grey; and her skin, lifeless and pale. Now her skin had acquired a healthy glow and her hair was darker. She still had some grey hair, but it possessed a lustre it previously lacked. I could see that even from the wisps that protruded from underneath the purple cap. Wow. That showed how stressed the crew of the Aghyrian ship were, and how much they needed to find a place to settle and replenish their resources. She carried a clear container with medical equipment, syringes, boxes, tweezers and other metal implements, which she set on the bed. Then she took the reader that held my m