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[vindicares]

[A cough abruptly interrupts the relative silence over the journals, followed by a shaky breath that half suggests her bones might be rattling with it. Surely they aren't, but with the weakness of her voice

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[encobert]

[takes note of that, fo' sho'. gonna run intel on it asap.]

voice;

[encobert]

[then in a tone of voice she'd remember, however blurred by exhaustion, memory or resentment:]

Captain Tarnei. What've they done to you?

voice;

[vindicares]

[Alas she's too tired to read it, aside her lack of social savvy]

Att...empted termination.

voice;

[encobert]

[/HURT. (only not.)]

By what means?

voice;

[vindicares]

Some...monstrous creature.

voice;

[encobert]

[measures his questions carefully, uncertain whether she would either pass out or be found out and taken away. he'd better be concise.]

Just one?

voice;

[vindicares]

One was... enough after they- [does her best to mask a cough] shot us.

voice;

[encobert]

[not a good job, selene. ease? what is ease?]

Not fatally, I'm hoping.

Captain, you must tell me more about the creature. Magical? Big? Claws and fire?

voice;

[vindicares]

[something she doesn't expect, that's for sure]

Not thus far.

...Dead now.

voice;

[encobert]

So you managed to kill it by yourself. Or whoever else would form part of "us." The other captain?

voice;

[vindicares]

...Injured, worse than I.

voice;

[encobert]

[no pause. no trailing thought. but he has to ask for the sake of knowing whether he should except a corpse or not.]

Chance of survival?

voice;

[vindicares]

Depends on whether...we get out of their territory.

voice;

[encobert]

I could help, but as things are now, it might be a little too tricky, even for us.

[sighs a little disappointedly.]

Just try to stay alive, you and Knox.