
"Not there. There, all the workers are mechanical."

"We need better. There's a military base three miles south of here. Hidden." She pointed. "WE have out own power plant there.""

Nova looked around ."No, you shouldn't be..."

Nova stood up and looked out the window. "We need computers. And a basement."

Nova ripped off a sleeve and wrapped it around the now huge wound on Alex's arm.

Nova looked at her bloodstained hands. "I'm sorry... about missing."

Nova flinched. She grabbed the bullet with the tweezers and pulled it out. "There!"

Nova cut in deeper. In one hand she grabbed the tweezers and held the wound slightly open. She lowered the tweezers deeper, trying to grab the bullet. She missed, pinching muscle tissue instead.

"Then do so quietly." Nova looked back at the wound, put the little knife up to it, and cut in.

Nova took the scalpel first. She looked Alex in the eye. "Promise me not to scream."

"I think so." Nova bent down again. "Tweezers and a scalpel."

"I wasn't me who hit her." Nova stood up. "This wound was caused by an actual standard bullet, not a chunk of supersonic metal."

Nova bent down and started to examine Alex's wound.

Nova got bored and grabbed her gun. She jumped down and entered the room. "No one around."

((Back. It means Gigantic, sapient nerd.))

((My Scientific is Nerdus Sapiena Gigantud.))

((I like the Shy pronunciation better than Shay.))

((Just wondering. I always thought it as Shy.))