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Alyssa began to feel the cool heat of the rocks around them warm her through, slowly but surely drying them. As they walked Kyna spoke and recalled somewhat hazily that she'd been in the tunnels before, but she stopped suddenly and turned to Alyssa with widened eyes, "Viscearri" she muttered with fear.

Alyssa looked forward down the darkening tunnel, they couldn't have been more than three hundred feet down tunnel from where it forked... "Surely we would have heard them?" she asked with a slight tone of fear in her own voice, "But it would make sense as to why there were two sets of foot prints back there.." she said looking back behind her.

Alyssa raised her wrist-computer and shone the torch light in it down the way, her eyes scanning bleakly for any signs of movement, "I can't see anything" she half-mumbled to herself. Alyssa looked to Kyna, "It'll be ok" she smiled weakly, lets walk a little longer and see how we go. As they walked Alyssa made a careful note to always keep an ear perked slightly for any abnormal noises. She also took note of the ground as they walked, small specks of blood were dotting the moss, glowing slightly red where it had landed and the moss not been disturbed.

"I think the Kismet ran into Viscearri and came out the worser" she said with a sick feeling in her gut... "Do you think Sean could have..." she stopped herself continuing her sentence. Alyssa looked down and the light from her wrist-computer lit up Kyna and for the first time she really paid attention to the woman. He wrist was pooling excessively with blood, and the light provided from Alyssa's computer really showed how bad it was, and how the bone was fractured and the muscle torn.

"We have to fix it" she said sternly, not even pointing to what she was talking about. "Sit down, and let me look" she said sternly again. "I'm not much of a medical doctor" she joked, "But I had to study all that stuff before I could start studying cells and organisms on their cellular levels" Alyssa reminisced all the long nights spent studying. "But I think I can help fix this... Or at least give you some better relief than just sticking you every few hours with a needle" she smiled weakly again.

Alyssa raised her wrist and pushed her finger to the screen of her computer a few times, "I always keep a tiny reserve on me in case I need it" she mused to herself, "But that wrist is useless and that means you're useless if we don't do something about it.." she said sternly looking into Kyna's eyes. "I'll inject you once with this" she raised her wrist so Kyna could see the small screen, "it's an enzyme and cell replicator solution..." she pushed the screen a few times and the syringe popped out, "It'll take almost all my reserve, but it's worth it". Alyssa prodded right into the wrist of Kyna without warning, "It's gonna hurt like a bitch" Alyssa said as she held Kyna's wrist hard so she couldn't squirm and ruin the makeshift procedure, "You're wrist isn't going to get better instantly, but over the next few hours it'll heal..." Alyssa then took Kyna's good hand and placed it on broken wrist, "hold tight for a second please". Alyssa bent over and ripped the bottom of her pants so one ankle was exposed then pulled three pens from her pocket.

Alyssa knelt into a position so one leg was out on a ninety degree angle and the other knee firmly in the glowing moss for support. "Lean your bad wrist on my leg", Alyssa then place two of her pens on either side of Kyna's wrist and began to wrap the torn makeshift bandage around them "the pens'll provide some support so your wrist doesn't move a lot, so the healing process will be better and less painful... but I'll have to give you another does of morphine so you don't feel the pain too much in the process either". Then Alyssa asked Kyna to open her palm and grab the third pen. When Kyna did so, Alyssa tore the bottom off her other pants leg and wrapped Kyna's fist up and around the wrist so her hand resembled a makeshift boxing glove.

Alyssa laughed and stood up, "It's shit alright.. but it'll do the job". Alyssa pressed the screen of her computer again and a loud beep echoed through the cave hall, she then without warning pricked the upper arm of Kyna "there you go.. the pain I've caused you will subside soon... but I've run out of morphine now and we'll need to go and find either an Ewae - a type of Epochian flower that has analgesic effects - or some Kismet medicine that numbs pain or human morphine... either way in two hours you're gonna start screaming and the healing of your wrist takes roughly six hours".

Alyssa was about to continue her rant on how Kyna was in for a world of hurt but she stopped when deep grumbling noises filled the tunnel. Just then two Viscearri burst through the ground, giant and hungry and blocking the women's way back to Dean. "RUN!" Alyssa shouted cocking the shotgun and firing absent-mindedly in the direction of the monsters. The backlash force was so unexpected for Alyssa that she was sent on her back. Dazed, Alyssa managed to scramble to her feet and begin her sprint down the tunnel looking for somewhere to hide, "You know roughly where to go!" she yelled At Kyna as they ran, "Where can we hide!?!"