Captain Elizabeth Trunketh opened her eyes but could see little in the darkened room. She lay in a bed with her head tightly bandaged and something over her face that held a tube down her throat. She tried to move her hands but found them restrained. She could move her head, turning it carefully from side to side to survey the hospital room. The medical technology she heard and saw in the dim light seemed more than a hundred years less advanced than what was available on Earth.
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