She held out a set of metal forceps, a scalpel, several clamps, and a small pair of stainless steel scissors. Brianna placed them in the pot of water and rushed out of the room. Delfina took out a pair of purple medical gloves and slipped them on her gnarled hands.
They waited patiently while Brianna boiled the instruments. She returned in 10 minutes.
“Good! Now, child, you’ll assist me while I clean out that gash.” Delfina ordered. “Sisters, help me roll her on her side. I will need more sheets and bandages.”
Alecto and Tisiphone gently moved Gaia onto her side. Brianna sat a small catch basin under Gaia’s side.
Delfina took a large syringe and one of the brown bottles, and went to work. She carefully irrigating the wound, aiming the liquid into the gash, and up under the flaps of skin. As the liquid flowed into the gash, flecks of clotted blood and yellowing clumps of venom flowed out.
“That yellow stuff is from the claw. Some demons are like the lizards, with venom in their claws,” Delfina told Brianna as she tried to catch all the fluid and not get sick.
After a few minutes, she was satisfied that the wound was as clean as she could get it. Delfina turned to Brianna.
“Got those forceps? What we’re going to do is numb her up, then stitch the wound. Then we bandage it up and hope for the best,” Delfina said as she filled the other syringe from a vial.
“If I’m not needed for a while, I need to hunt down Hermes or Thanatos,” Tisiphone said. “One of them might know what has happened to Megaera.” When no one objected, Tisiphone disappeared.
It took Delfina about an hour to fully stitch up the wound and deal with Gaia’s nose. She stuffed wadding in her nose and gave her a mild sedative to help her sleep. She sat next to the goddess until she was sleeping soundly.
“She’ll be OK for now. Until we can get a healer here, and a good one, she’ll not get any better. She won’t get worse…” Delphine explained. “I mean a really good healer.”
“Only one I know of is Megaera, who’s missing,” Alecto told the shaman.
Delfina checked on her patient one more time, and hustled everyone out of the room.
When they all gathered in the living room, Tisiphone arrived, with Thanatos in tow.
“I found one of them,” Tisiphone said as they entered the room.
“How is mother?” Thanatos asked.
“She’ll be fine, won’t be better until we find Megaera,” Alecto said.
“I had sent out messengers, seeing if I can fathom what has happened in the Underworld. One returned with very bad news,” Thanatos told the group. “Megaera was taken by Sorath. Undoubtedly, she is in the prison cells, which is where they have Hades.”
“Someone will have to go get her, just who?” Alecto said.
“Can’t be one of us,” Tisiphone said. “We’ll be needed here in case he attacks again on the surface.”
“What about my uncle?” Brianna suggested. “He’s a cop and if anyone can find a missing person, it’s a cop.”
Tisiphone looked at Alecto, and smiled. “He’d be perfect. He got her pregnant, he can go to hell and find her.”
“I wouldn’t put it that way, but it’s a good idea,” Alecto admitted.
“I can’t go talk to him, he wants to arrest me for taking out that serial killer, but maybe Brianna?” Tisiphone suggested.
“I would love to, but he can’t see me at all,” Brianna objected.
“Allow me to call on him. I believe I can convince him to see things differently,” Thanatos said.
Battle for Tartarus: Furies Book 2 is due out in September, 2018
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Thompson is an award-winning screenwriter, director and award-winning photographer currently spending his time between Los Angeles, CA and Austin, Texas.
“The Angels of Vengeance” is an adaptation of his screenplay: “The Furies”
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