The woman named Ioana made a sound of disgust at that.
“Kit Carrington? You’re Augur?” Miu asked.
“I was Augur. I’m Kit now. Only Kit.” The woman sighed and snuggled into her bed, adjusting her sheets. “Can I have some water, or tea, and maybe something to eat? I’m not hungry, but I think I’d like a snack and a drink.”
Augur. As in the strongest telepath? Arguably the world’s strongest? Who rumor said she spent hours at a time in a catatonic state when her gift would overwhelm her? Wow.
“Oh, yes. Here.” Felix loaded up a tray with a bowl of pudding, Jell-O, and one of the jugs of water. Wheeling over the cart to her, he set a spoon in her palm and then gently wrapped medical tape around it so she could use her mangled hand to some degree.
Then he adjusted the bed so she was sitting up, taking a moment to reset her blankets.
“The bowl on the left is pudding, the middle bowl is Jell-O, and on the far right is water.
“I wasn’t sure what condition you would all be in once I woke you, so we’re sticking to simple things for now. Things that you can digest regardless of whatever condition your insides are in.”
“Good plan. Makes sense,” Kit said, dipping the spoon into the pudding and then trying to guide it to her mouth.
“Could you get me some as well?” Miu asked, her voice soft.
“Of course, give me one second while I get that all prepped,” Felix said, moving over to her.
“So, you can fix amputations. Quite a power set. What do you plan on replacing next?” Kit asked, closing her mouth around her spoon. “Oh, chocolate.”
“Either your hands or your eyes. I can only do so much in any given day. It resets at midnight every night. Then I can do it all over again.”
“Hands, please,” Miu said. Felix adjusted her bed and then wheeled her full tray over. “Eyes can wait if I can take care of everything else myself.”
Kit nodded her head as she tried to reposition her spoon. “Maybe hands. I think maybe eyes, personally. I’m not keen on being blind so far.”
This was all rather unexpected. They were actually reacting better than he’d thought they would. That or they were playing with him, waiting for an opportunity to do something.
Wouldn’t matter, though, since they were magically bound in their contracted states to him.
Behind him, Ioana grunted and then said with a stern yet soft voice, “A tray for me as well, if you please. I admit the same as Kit. I do not hunger, but… I think I would enjoy having something to drink and eat.”
Felix grinned at that. “Sure thing, Ioana. I’ll take care of that.”
Chapter 4 - Point of View -
All three of the heroines had passed out as soon as they’d cleared their bowls.
Rather than working on them as they slept, he decided to wait till morning.
Staring up at the ceiling of the ward room, it took him a minute to orient his thoughts.
Sitting up, he rubbed at his eyes with his hands, the sleeping bag bunched up around his middle.
“Good morning,” Kit said pleasantly, her eyeless face swiveling towards him.
“Uh, yeah. Good morning,” Felix said, coughing into his hand. Stretching his arms over his head, he inspected his supers.
Ioana slept, Miu looked… lost, and Kit seemed chipper.
“Miu,” Felix said. Her head slowly turned towards him, but she said nothing. “What’s wrong?”
“I… can’t see anything,” Miu said slowly.
“Yes. Your eyes, well, they were removed.” Perhaps they hadn’t accepted everything as easily last night as he had thought.
“I’m blind. I’ll never see again,” Miu murmured, her head sinking.
“Ah, no, I can restore them.” Felix stood up from his bag and walked over to her bed.
“Lie,” Miu hissed. “No one can do that. You only wish to use us.”
Felix couldn’t argue with that. He did want to use them. Instead, he opened up Miu’s window and selected the Blinded condition.
“Left or right eye, Miu?” he asked.
“What? What do you mean?” she asked bitterly.
“Left or right eye?” he asked again, not giving her any more information.
“Right,” she said in a mocking tone.
Felix picked the right eye of the blinded condition, then hit confirm.
Miu sucked in a breath as the dark socket of her eye started to boil and shift. A few seconds in and already he could tell her right eye was regrowing itself straight out from her brain, behind the sunken eyelid.
Ten seconds from the confirmation button and all was still on Miu’s face.
“Try opening your right eye. Don’t be shocked by what you see. As I said, and have now demonstrated, I can fix it.” Felix left her there and wandered over to Kit’s bed.
“I… I can see! I can see… oh my God,” Miu said, her voice catching. “What did they do?”
“They did what only the truly evil can,” Kit explained. “And yet, here we are. Alive, under care, and being given the chance at a normal life. I’m grateful. I choose the left eye; it’s the least problematic of the two. I might even be able to see the TV. I’ll need to get a new pair of glasses.”
Felix smiled to himself as he focused on her sheet. She did indeed need glasses originally. Since the eye was being rebuilt, though, it’d only take a few extra points to modify it. To make it so she wouldn’t need a prescription.
“That’s a pity. I’m afraid you won’t be able to leave the house for a while,” Felix said, mentally thumbing the confirm button.
Kit smiled sadly at that but didn’t respond. In ten seconds, her left eye had been reformed.
“Then again, I fixed your eyesight. You won’t need eyeglasses anyways,” Felix said with a prideful snicker.
Ioana had been stirring as they spoke. She’d probably wake soon.
Felix turned around to face her. Picking her right eye, he hit the confirmation button. After it activated, he walked over and sat down on his stool.
Amazingly, he still had points left. He wasn’t sure how many, but he still had some. He was at least twelve times as strong as he used to be just by going by the point values already.
“That’s quite impressive, Felix,” Kit said, looking around with her one eye.
“Anything I own, I can modify,” Felix said with a shrug. Ioana’s single eye fluttered open.
“What?” she muttered.
“We started with a single eye for each of you, Ioana. It seemed like a good demonstration that, yes, I can repair you completely, and that, yes, it’s exactly as I described to you. Seeing is believing, after all.”
Felix looked over his shoulder at the unpowered TV. Pointing at it, he continued, “The remote to this is in the bedside between Ioana and Miu. Full cable access and every station under the sun.
“I’ll be undoing your restraint today as well. I’m telling you to stay in this house, though, and please do not attempt to contact anyone else.”
Felix sighed and looked back to the three one-eyed women. “All you’ll accomplish is bringing the authorities down on us. You’ll get sent to… wherever they send supers, and I’ll probably be fined for not handling you correctly.”
“Fined? For not handling us?” Ioana asked darkly.
“Yeah, fined. I told you, the city is run by a supervillain now. Heroes are little better than lampposts right now. All the borders are under checkpoint and patrolled by supers and the military alike.”
Felix shrugged and stood up. Working quickly, he undid the restraints for each woman. They still looked like the walking dead, but they seemed energetic enough. They weren’t in pain, either.
“How long will it take… take to fix us?” Miu asked.
“I really have no idea. I’ve never done anything at this level. I do plan on taking the next week off for vacation, though, to get you three put back together as much as I can.”