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Very soon after Jack and Tati got there, Theo and a rather sizable group of people came. Theo instructed them in, which they were happy to oblige with. Jack handed Tati off to some people that said they could help her. They bandaged up her hands, but they said that it would be about 4-6 weeks before she would be healed. They splinted her fingers and gave her antibiotics for the cuts, but she was still in a lot of pain and laid down for a rest to try to sleep away the initial effects, Anastasia sleeping on her stomach.

Jack looked around and noticed a woman with long dark hair and a couple of large bags tap her leg as if checking for something. He thought that maybe she just had an itch or something, but he'd seen people store weapons along their legs before and wondered. He walked into the cave and let some people who could help her take Tati away. The place was much more than he'd expected it to be and it felt a little overwhelming. He still didn't know if he should even trust these people or not. They certainly seemed organized enough to be some weird army. They had reached out to him, but that didn't mean anything. The man from the other group had come to him first, but why should he trust him any more than these people or vice versus?

He went over and found a place to sit. He needed to wrap his head around everything. He'd seen someone dead in the elevator. Most likely, either the guy or girl had killed him, but he had no clue as to which or why. It didn't seem like it would be a particularly good idea to go and ask, "Alright, now, why should I trust you? Why might one of you kill a guy? Why are you fighting each other? Are you really trying to kill the planet? If I don't know if I can trust you, how I can I know if any of these answers are true?" No, that certainly wouldn't work. He had to make a judgment call eventually. More information, that's what he needed. The only thing he could think to do was listen, talk to people if the opportunity arose. He turned where he was sitting to look and see that Tati had decided to lay down and Anastasia was sleeping on her stomach. But just beyond her he saw what appeared to be a large number of syringes being prepared with an odd fluid in them.