"I like bugs," Robert said to Li. "It's a harmless spell, and it is quite escape proof, and they appear to be peaceful once they acclimate to the shift to an insect. And, our citizens are protected. The only glitch is my remembering which ones were originally bugs and which ones were not."
Robert went over to the nurse to check on the nurse that Li had attended, sitting on the floor beside her. The bleeding had indeed stopped. He moved her robes just enough to lay his hand directly on the nurse's wound. He didn't have that much healing energy left. He'd given most of it to Khaat already. He forced the wound to close, but in order to get it to close and to relieve her pain, he had to do what he taught his healers not to do. He drew the negative energy of the wound to him--the wound, the damage, the pain, drew it all to his own system. And, then he found that just as he expected, he did not have enough energy left to found himself properly. Her pain now became his. It merely added to what he already had from the poison. The last of his energy gone, he found himself leaning back against the wall. He wasn't sure he had the strength to get to get back up.
He looked at Jack. "I'm tired," he sighed, trying to make light of it in front of so many others he didn't know all that well. He was hoping Jack understood. Robert believed he was going to need Jack's help to stand, and he wanted to go to his office until he got staff to debrief and he knew for sure all the patients and staff were unharmed. "Lets go upstairs and have a cup of tea, don't you think?"
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