Eren’s Challenge, E012, Orange God Life

Orange God Life

Eren’s Challenge

By Kenneth Shumaker

Episode 012, Orange God Life

With InUPress

November 5, 2017

Eren’s Challenge 

In Kenneth Shumaker’s Eren’s Challenge, we enter the world of the robotics research technician, a mature human male, Eren Mallet. During Eren’s 5th Galaxy Palcard sector journey, he encounters hazards with his friend, Esmelda(Es) Lantora, the mature human female who is an ambassador’s administrator. The pair struggle with adventures and dramatic developments while in the metropolitan industrial trade city of Goral, on the planet of the Krenar. Here, they fight with bureaucrats and the Hean priestly hierarchy.

In the previous Eren’s Challenge episode 011, ‘Rundle Treat Yen’ …

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We watched Eren take a beating and keep on twitching. Es, though, didn’t fare so well. Unhrah arrived late with an accomplice to the culprit who beat Eren and Es.

We continue now with Eren’s Challenge episode 012, ‘Orange God Life’ on …

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Laying here in Angel’s infirmary, I’m still in shock over the Friend House Tower’s medical facilities. Looking at the biomedical scanning and healing equipment that is hooked to myself and Es, and the three medical technicians lording over us, it is nothing short of amazing. These natural killers, the gnolls, are healers beyond anything we have available on our world. And, for our part in the capturing of the two moles in her organisation, Angel and her mates grant us use of their facilities – for a price, of course. Angel has never attended to us personally, of course.

Her brute of a four-hundred-plus-pound gnollmal, her nine-foot three-inch companion, Jurter, came and congratulated me, for the both of us.

Es still hasn’t regained consciousness.

The tech, after scanning my entire body with a set of funky reading glasses and announcing that I have four broken ribs and an arm broken in three places, has wrapped a blanket-type device around my chest and another around the bicep of my right arm.

The human med-tech informs me that the gnoll tech stimulates bone mending at such a rate that the breaks will be healed in two days as if the bones had never been broken.

When I ask about Es, he informs me that Es has a collapsed lung, several broken ribs, and fractures in several places on her spine. The nerve damage will take four or five days to repair before they dare wake her. Then they can reconscience Es, and she’ll be as good as a healthy woman when it’s all done.

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The med tech came to me an hour ago to inform me that Angel has approved healing of Es’ two brain tumours as well.  The tech tells me that she has a rare brain cancer that is terminal in three to four months without treatment. He says they caught it before cancer could do irreparable damages.

I’ve been thinking about the other news they gave me and the fact they have cured my low-grade nearsightedness today as a bonus. All of this is costing me ten-thousand credits.

Miracles of timing? Maybe! Godly intervention? … maybe. Fate? Might be!

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I woke up ten minutes ago with a glowering gnollfem peering down on me, standing and watching me over my bed.

This gnollfem, Angel, is tense most of the time, but right now I see veins standing out on the sides of her muzzle, around rims of her eyes, and spidering out through the skin of the inner side of her ears. Seeing my eyes open, she asks in a near snarl. “Do you know of our Orange god?”

Cautiously elevating myself up onto my elbows on the medbed, I look up into her eyes, grimacing in weakened discomfort. “You know, it would be polite to come to me after I wake, and I’ve used the privy. Your Orange god is the same as our Gor – the evil ones of both our faith’s fates.”

Nodding vehemently, she then replies, “Correct, Vel Hundor. You are no stupid gowa. No food fodder for the weak. It seems I’ve been cursed by the Orange god. But my mates say, our great good god, Juyer, sent you to us. I’m told by my mates not to abuse you … we don’t like you, humans … but I suspect you’ve guessed that already.”

Sliding my feet and lower legs from under my covers and then them over the side of the bed, dangling them loose in the space beside the bed, I’m feeling energised due to feeling so much healthier. The med techs even removed the slowly building rheumatoid arthritis from my spine for additional five-k credits. I’m feeling pain-free, comfortable, and flexible like a kid again. The gnoll healing blankets are off now; my ribs and arm feel fine. Though, Es is still unconscious and laying wrapped in her four blankets.

I sneer up at Angel and then respond to her. “You do know that for most humans who I know, the feeling is mutual. We’ve learned grudging respect because we can’t beat the tar out of you without our weapons and most of our firearms barely phase you people. So most people grin and bear your kind in grating peace. We hope not to start a war with your people.”

Sitting on the edge of the sturdy bed, which is built to hold an adult gnoll, Angel grimaces. “The feeling is mutual, Vel Hundor. Our people can’t compete with you in space yet. Your kind keeps your space tech flight system’s secrets too well. But we’re patient … it has only been a few years since the Arrival, and our people typically live a lifespan of over two-hundred of your years.”

Drawing in a deep breath, I then sigh. I’ll die an old man, hopefully at around a-hundred and-thirty-years-old, and Angel will just be entering into her mature adult years. Damn!

Looking over at her, I ask, “Why did YOU come to our world, Paragon?”

This ends part one of Eren’s Challenge E012 which will continue in part two …

By, Kenneth Shumaker

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