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Kyna's mind was reeling as an information overload was dumped on her from the two people she had saved and been saved by. They were heading to the center of the city, for Alyssa to fly the last ship back to Earth. Kyna then realised why she recognised Alyssa and her name - she was the 'fabled one'. The only human alive to be immune to the virus. Kyna had heard of her before this anyway, as scientists liked to gossip. She was a bio-engineer and expert in genetics, and so, as far as Kyna could tell, was worth saving. Not that it didn't hurt, the idea that her work wasn't enough to promote her safety... but then, she was going to die anyway.

She listened as the other two spoke, pulling her eyes back as they wandered across the glistening stalactites and stalagmites, veins of heat-sensitive life criss-crossing through them. She was only brought back when she felt the cold heavy metal of a gun in her hands. She was focused on the weapon as Alyssa spoke, telling Dean that they had twenty-minutes to search, otherwise they were to rendezvous back. She threatened him jokingly, handed him a flashlight and indicated which tunnel herself and Kyna would take. Kyna had been down here before, several times actually... But it was different now. Kyna studied it, her mind blurring as her wrist slowly began to throb again. She was exhausted, her eyelids drooping, her footsteps shuffled and the gun hung limp in her fingers.

"Any of this familiar to you Kyna?" Kyna's dizzy spell vanished and she perked up, her eyelids flying open.

"I do actually... I have been down in this system many times. It's a bit difficult to navigate without a good light source, but I can still recognise certain things." She said as strongly as her voice would allow. "B-but, something has happened to the floor... It's almost like a crocodile slide, y'know, up the mud? I... I can-" And then Kyna froze. She had encountered what she thought had been through here before. When they were only a few feet long, before the mutation of virus altered their growing capacity.

"Viscearri..." She muttered, looking at Alyssa in fear.