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“You said that she had a few other issues,” Benton stated as he was trying to process everything that the doctor had just told him. He was not facing the men and looking at him. There was something that most people didn't even get when it came to talking to him. Benton had a reputation of not seemingly caring about most people. One of the richest men in the world, and then it almost seemed like he had no interpersonal skills. Most people just felt happy to be in the same room as him, as if either his money or his intellect would be the thing that would make them rise up like a phoenix. He hated that more than anything.

“She has massive brain bleeding. Whatever happened to her, she hit her head quite a few times. There's no actual telling until she wakes up what the damage was.” The doctor said as he leveled a stare at Benton.

“What is the cause of her injuries?” Benton asked as he looked at the girl. He was not curious because there was nothing by her body that he saw that could have caused injuries to her head. There was nothing by her body that could have caused any of her injuries. This is becoming more of a mystery than he wanted to deal with truly. Though he felt no remorse and ordering a guard to be placed here because he didn't understand the concept of why she was even remotely close to the main part of the base.

 This was becoming more concerning for him. It wasn't the fact that she was there. It was how injured she was. Now that he saw her in a gown, he could see the damage that had been done to her body. It wasn't a normal place to be as they were in the middle of a mountain range. It was rather secluded, and there were no towns within about 15 miles. And that was on the coast. He didn't think that she looked like one of the young women from the village that the coast had. Nothing was making any sense at the moment, and he knew that he needed to take a step back. Where could she have come from? What was she doing in the middle of nowhere if not to be there to scout out the base?

“To that, we're not exactly sure. We're hoping that when she wakes up, she'll be able to tell us what happened, but at the moment, I don't think with her brain scans being what they are that she will have full function of either her memory or her ability to talk.” The doctor said as he looked at Benton and then looked back to the girl. The man was clearly concerned with the fact that she had so many bruises and the brain bleed that was slowly putting pressure on her head. It was plain to see that the man thought that she was going to have a lot more issues after she woke up than she did at the moment. Benton knew that he had to just clarify a few things before he really made his decision on what to do with her.

“Just so I completely understand what you're saying so we can figure out what her next course of treatment is. You   believe that she might suffer some kind of brain damage or possibly amnesia?” Benton asked as he thought he was reaching right now. He did do medical work but not like this. He was trying to understand the most basic concepts right now. They could adjust everything later.

“Yes, Sir, period, to be perfectly honest, amnesia would probably be the best possible outcome of this situation. If she has any type of brain damage, there's no telling if she would be able to even access her memories or be able to tell us what happened.” the doctor said as he looked at the girl and sighed. “The fact is, Sir that we're not exactly sure what's going to happen when she wakes up. I know for right now. We plan on keeping her sedated for another day or so. When she wakes up, I will have somebody inform you so you can come and see for yourself.”

Benton was not exactly thrilled with the news that he had just received, but once again, he had more questions and answers. He knew he needed to get back to the lab and work on the quantum infuser that he had poured himself into for the past few years period. They were extremely close to getting it to work absolutely correctly. They had had a lot of success within the past year, but the fluctuations have been off by a millimeter fraction, and he had not been able to understand or process the reasons why. Over the past few years, they had managed to get everything correctly, at least by the math, but nothing seemed to completely work the way that it should. Something was missing. Right now, he needed to focus on finding out what that one thing was so they could get it to work and then distribute it throughout the world. It wasn't something that he was doing to make even more profit even though he would be a very rich man, more so than he already was. This was a scientific discovery that would change the way that medicine and even energy were produced. It was going to be a lifechanger for many different places, and it would be something that would benefit humankind. That's at least what he kept telling himself. It was something that his father had worked for and what his grandfather had instilled since the beginning of the family dynasty. They had to finish this one thing. Benton had known his entire life that he was going to have to deal with that was a part of this. He wasn't going to be able to have a normal life until it was finished. He was not going to let the intruder, even if she was a female, be a distraction from what he really needed to do.

Benton also realized that the female that was going to reside in the medical Bay was nothing more than just a distraction to him. He knew that he needed to focus on what was the most important. He had to wonder why the only thing that he could honestly see in his mind was her laying in the bed. Even when he tried to shake those particular memories away, that's all he could see.