There appears, quite unaccountably, a young man with a head injury.
kyeo in a high-trust society
The doctor goes. The nurse comes back, and adjusts his machines, and tells him she's giving him pain meds. "And if you're still in pain, the doctor's orders say I can give you more once the police have come. But don't count on them showing up any time soon, because they'll probably be a couple of hours."
stargazer
As far as Kyeo knows nobody would have wanted to hit him over the head with a blunt object. He is pretty sure that the ship got into some kind of trouble and he hit his head that way, what's bewildering is how he wound up on Earth from the Ibyatok system.
stargazer
"I suppose it's possible my ship was assaulted. By another ship. I was not personally assaulted."