No real time to sit down and write anything but a short segment today. Likely won't have any more tomorrow, either.
Still, for what it's worth ...
"How is she, Doctor?"
Yohko Helene brushed back an errant strand of hair as she stepped out of the medical tent they'd set up last night. Or should that be, this morning?
While she wasn't exactly a workaholic, she also wasn't someone who could just stop in the middle of an investigation into some facts. Especially if those facts were related to the well-being of one of her students.
As a result, she hadn't really managed to get any real sleep that night. First she'd been busy with examining Coral Erstin Ho, taking samples of her blood, then treating her. When _that_ was over and done with, Yukariko had come back, dragging most of the gear she'd found in what looked like where the girl had taken shelter.
An examination of said gear proved to bring up more question than it did answers, but it did explain the readings she'd gotten from miss Ho's blood samples.
"Stable and getting better," she replied to the query. It wasn't really surprising to see Garderobe's Headmistress up and about this early, what with one of her charges still missing and one in sickbed. "From the looks of things, their catalyst injector was tampered with. Which is why she's going through all that. From the bite marks on her leg, one of the venomous snake breeds from hereabout wanted a snack."
"Sabotage?" Natsuki Kruger asked, sharply.
"Looks like it. I'd triple checked the injectors before giving them out, and that one was brand new as well. It was the same with the beacons," Yohko spoke, interrupting briefly to yawn. "Though the traces of antiven in the blood samples I took before injecting her with the catalyst were unexpected."
Meaning whoever had brought her back here, had first tried that ... not that this would help much. The composition of the remains wasn't anything unique, rather, it was the sort of universal serum carried in most military field kits. Generic, made to be applied early after the bite, and not as effective as specialized serums against specific venoms would be. Both it and the venom had been slowed by the Garderobe student's nanomachines, which had been trying to counter the attack on their host even without the catalyst, but the battle had been a losing one all the same.
"Wonderful, more complications we didn't need," Natsuki groused, hand brushing back through her dark hair in a motion that was as unconscious as breathing to her.
Like they didn't have enough problems without more unknown factors popping up out of the night.
"Anything else, Headmistress?"
"No. I was just coming down to tell you we're leaving to go investigate the site of the Materialization."
Along with an armored transporter full of Aries troops, their President and her Otome, and both dai Artai and blan de Windbloom. Though as to why the latter two were going ...
... Natsuki shook her head. If this kept up she'd need to start taking painkillers. She could almost feel the migraine coming on.
A familiar beeping from the command tent drew their attention, and both rushed there ...
"This time," Yohko said, eyes glued to the readouts on the screen. "It's definitely a Materialization. More than one. In the vicinity of the last big one we received yesterday. Slaves."
tsuzuku, and g'night.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm
Still, for what it's worth ...
"How is she, Doctor?"
Yohko Helene brushed back an errant strand of hair as she stepped out of the medical tent they'd set up last night. Or should that be, this morning?
While she wasn't exactly a workaholic, she also wasn't someone who could just stop in the middle of an investigation into some facts. Especially if those facts were related to the well-being of one of her students.
As a result, she hadn't really managed to get any real sleep that night. First she'd been busy with examining Coral Erstin Ho, taking samples of her blood, then treating her. When _that_ was over and done with, Yukariko had come back, dragging most of the gear she'd found in what looked like where the girl had taken shelter.
An examination of said gear proved to bring up more question than it did answers, but it did explain the readings she'd gotten from miss Ho's blood samples.
"Stable and getting better," she replied to the query. It wasn't really surprising to see Garderobe's Headmistress up and about this early, what with one of her charges still missing and one in sickbed. "From the looks of things, their catalyst injector was tampered with. Which is why she's going through all that. From the bite marks on her leg, one of the venomous snake breeds from hereabout wanted a snack."
"Sabotage?" Natsuki Kruger asked, sharply.
"Looks like it. I'd triple checked the injectors before giving them out, and that one was brand new as well. It was the same with the beacons," Yohko spoke, interrupting briefly to yawn. "Though the traces of antiven in the blood samples I took before injecting her with the catalyst were unexpected."
Meaning whoever had brought her back here, had first tried that ... not that this would help much. The composition of the remains wasn't anything unique, rather, it was the sort of universal serum carried in most military field kits. Generic, made to be applied early after the bite, and not as effective as specialized serums against specific venoms would be. Both it and the venom had been slowed by the Garderobe student's nanomachines, which had been trying to counter the attack on their host even without the catalyst, but the battle had been a losing one all the same.
"Wonderful, more complications we didn't need," Natsuki groused, hand brushing back through her dark hair in a motion that was as unconscious as breathing to her.
Like they didn't have enough problems without more unknown factors popping up out of the night.
"Anything else, Headmistress?"
"No. I was just coming down to tell you we're leaving to go investigate the site of the Materialization."
Along with an armored transporter full of Aries troops, their President and her Otome, and both dai Artai and blan de Windbloom. Though as to why the latter two were going ...
... Natsuki shook her head. If this kept up she'd need to start taking painkillers. She could almost feel the migraine coming on.
A familiar beeping from the command tent drew their attention, and both rushed there ...
"This time," Yohko said, eyes glued to the readouts on the screen. "It's definitely a Materialization. More than one. In the vicinity of the last big one we received yesterday. Slaves."
tsuzuku, and g'night.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm