Invidia

Erica Carter awakens weak emaciated and connected to medical monitors in a strange sterile room. An exotic long-haired figure inserts a device into a coupling nodule in her abdomen which causes intense pain and nausea. She passes out from pain.When she awakens she can understand him but he cannot understand her. As he disconnects her from the monitors he informs her she has been chambered. He is H'dahl'h. She is H'Erhic'ha. He informs her that she is on Shee and was to assist the Shee'a. She bears the Pure until it is needed to heal the Shee. When a Shee requires healing the restored Pure are extracted from her and chambered into the Shee. She is introduced to her host family clan Y'lates'ha. H'k'letta'hen is the father governor of the southeastern quadrant of H'adesen'e. The mother is B'reka'na of clan T'ahoit'ah hereditary rulers of the southern continent. Her uncle is Secundus of the Shee'a. Their children are H'Pretusk'im and Cort'nase. (She calls the boy Tusk and the girl Cort.)H'dahl'h explains that Shee'a is a planet in a binary-star system one of which is a pulsar. The Pulsar altered 700 years earlier sending out intense electro-magnetic beams which decimated Shee's magnetic poles increased the tilt of the planet and destroyed most life in the northern hemisphere. The population steadily migrated to the southernmost continent which is now contaminated. The only surviving city is H'adesen'e.Shee immune systems were destroyed by the radiation causing cancer. A treatment was developed using micro-organisms found at the South Pole. These organisms were immune to- and thrived on- radiation. When injected into a Shee they purify the organs and blood. Nicknamed Pure they can remain in a Shee for only so long before they needed filtering.When she awoke H'dahl'h could understand her because he is now c