Contact [Bendy timed to 3 or 4 days after Lirath]

[fate_favored]

In the aftermath of the battle at Lirath, Stacy had been severely damaged. Though she still eventually managed to build up enough power to resume course, she was obviously struggling, her pace far slower than normal. She could barely even manage to directly address those who needed to speak with her, instead allowing the more monotone voice of the

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[aboutthatevac]

Kerrigan watched as they came aboard. She had her arms folded over her chest. Her hands grasped her own flesh, digging in hard.

She tried to evaluate the Daligig on a tactical level but the personal interfered. All she could picture were a team of Daligig stripping her naked, cutting her open, tampering with her mind just like the Confederacy.

She could hear her teeth grinding together. She felt both disgusted and disgusting. Used and damaged and violated. And those feelings projected, unconsciously, all around her. She pulsed with barely controlled anger.

Kerrigan walked purposefully to the Daligig, addressing the self declared leader of everyone on this ship.

"Care to explain why you experimented on me? I'm sure it was justified by your delusion that it was for greater good."

[aboutthatevac]

I'll kill you. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. She could not think clearly enough to come up with how, all she knew was that she would.

Kerrigan flexed her legs, fully intending to stand in spite of her broken bones but her body would not allow her.

[needs_release]

Sam wasn't surprised that trouble had broken out, but he made sure that everything in Medbay was up to snuff, in case there were inspections involved in this visit. So when the message came, he told Howard to meet him there, and went to Obs as soon as he could.

And by as fast as he could, that was only a second or two after telling Howard to meet him there. Superhuman speed has its advantages. Only those with vision more acute than the average human would have seen him coming, but others only saw him suddenly appear at the outside edge of the group wearing a medkit. "Nonono, hold still. You're in no condition to be getting up," he told Kerrigan as he crouched down beside her. "Just hang tight for a minute."

He glanced up at the Daligig and the other new arrivals briefly. They all smelled new and strange, but that was hardly unusual on this ship. He gave them a nod as a greeting before turning back to his work.

[i_sell_drugs]

Howard, on the other hand, takes a few minutes to get up to Obs deck even having sprinted - not only is he human, but he's also bringing the stretcher. He rushes to Sam's side, unslinging his med kit. He doesn't waste time, but he does glance in curiosity and fear at the visitors. He hasn't trusted them from the start, even if they did inadvertently give him a way out of his awful homeworld.

And joy, Fractures McBrokenbone is trying to stand up. Awesome. He loves patients that do even more damage to themselves through sheer stubbornness. She's just going to be a peach, isn't she?

"Should we get her on the stretcher first?" he asks, crouching down next to Sam, and then whispers. "Did they do this to her?"

[futureisclear]

Ildraniath is still hovering, gaze icy - although most of her ire seems directed in the Dalgig's direction. She doesn't bother to lower her voice, "They claim she attacked them and that they had no choice but to subdue her like this. I only saw her hurled across the room."

[aboutthatevac]

Kerrigan hissed. Since her legs weren't responding she tried her arms but that only resulted in a crunching sound accompanied by more pain. She yelled.

The pain faded enough for her to speak.

"I will not lie here. They used me. Experimented-" She had said the last word too forcefully. Her lungs had pressed up against her broken ribs and she was incoherent once more. It only made her more furious.

[needs_release]

Sam put a hand on her shoulder, somewhere she wasn't injured. He used a bit more strength than one would expect someone his size to have. "Stop," he insisted. "This battle's over. We'll discuss who did what later."

"Stabilize the fractures first. We'll set them back in Medbay," he told Howard. He pulled some various straps and cushions designed for just this kind of purpose from the stretcher, and set to work on her arms.

((The reason why Lance shouldn't watch TV and tag. Name failures orz))

[i_sell_drugs]

Somehow, Howard isn't the least bit surprised when Ildy confirms that the Daligig were indeed the ones dealing the damage.

"Should we sedate her?" Howard asks, pulling braces and tape out of his kit to splint her legs. He doesn't really want to be applying pressure to someone who might react violently to being restrained. "How many broken bones you counting, Sampire?"

[aboutthatevac]

If they were waiting for Kerrigan to see reason, it didn't look like it would happen any time soon. She still struggled despite her broken ribs, legs, and arms.

"Let me go!"