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WHO KAIDAN & YOU
WHAT Kaidan is busted up and hurt after a rockslide. He's separated from his companions and is either a)easy pickings or b)someone who needs a little help depending on who's lookin.
WHERE 7-Jish
WHEN after the rockslide.
NOTES Kaidan has raccoon eyes, a broken nose (which he's put back in place), some broken fingers (splinted) and a mass array of scrapes and bruises. He's moving a little slow.

Kaidan doesn't die in the rockslide, but he's been in better shape. He's banged up and scratched-- his nose is broken along with a few fingers and he definitely has two solid black eyes. He doesn't know where he ended up compared to the rest of the camp but he knows it would be futile looking for them so he doesn't. He... He can't exactly track in the state he's in, and climbing back to where the camp was would be hell. He'll try to rest for a bit, especially since the world periodically goes black aroun the edges or the trees start spinning.

Even so, Kaidan is no idiot. That rockslide hadn't been natural. It was manmade. As much as Kaidan wishes he could simply rest and heal, he can't. He has to keep moving from water source to water source, taking in his fill of anything edible he finds. He got some matches from his sponsers, not entirely useless but not entirely needed at this point; a bit of wire so he can at least try and snare game. It's something he hasn't tried, not yet. A safe place, first. But even then, safe was useless.

He'll have to slow down eventually, but at this point his mind is far too disjointed to even fathom calculating anything which rest would provide time for. Kaidan will be in control of what he can have for as long as possible. The strain of movement, the dedication to survival... that works for now.

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Kaidan isn't completely sure how he survived the landslide but somehow he's opening his eyes a little after the earth settles. He knows he's broken a few things, the pain signals going mad all over his body-- but the warmth down his chin from a nosebleed and the fact his left hand is barely responsive... broken fingers, broken nose. That's what immediately becomes clear, Kaidan is sure there will be more.

Dragging himself upwards, Kaidan manages to limp away from the rubble, looking up at the mountain side he came from. There's not a whole lot left. There could have been cannon fire while he was out. Kaidan prays that there wasn't. Kaidan is leaning on a tree that wasn't toppled in the slide; keeping his weight off his left side, where most of his pain seems to be originating from.

Lottie was picking her way across as quick as she could. The rocks were still settling and every time she attempted to move faster something slid out and she nearly ate it face forward into rocks.

But the only way back was across this field, now thrown wide open by the rocks breaking down all the trees. She was almost upon Kaidan before she saw him.

"Oh Sweet Mary!" She gasped, before smacking her hand over her mouth.

Really it was a miracle she was alive.

Kaidan wishes he had something to arm himself with but there's nothing. He wishes he was still seeing straight, but not a whole lot seems to be going his way right now. Lottie comes into focus after a second and... well, she doesn't look that threatening. He couldn't fight her off anyways, so instead he just slides down the trunk of the tree until he's sitting down, clutching his injured hand to his gut and trying to give the girl a smile, but he stops halfway. "I'm not going to hurt you. I, uh, can't. Even if I wanted to."

"Oh dear, oh dear..." All thoughts of running, of trying to defend herself slip from her mind, and she rushes over to kneel next to the man, fussing over his rounds.

"You look just awful, you know that?" She gives him a wide smile to compensate for the truth in her words.

Yeah, she sucks at this game.

Kaidan laughs, even if it hurts. He's a little dilusional right now, his hearing pretty shot. But still, it doesn't pass his judgment that he's being fussed over by a girl that has to be at least 10 years younger. if not 15. God, if he were back with the Alliance, he might be put to question for this. "I figured. Honestly, I'm just glad no one here has a mirror." Because it helps to joke about things that don't matter. Joker rubbed off on him a little. It's a coping method like any other.

Lottie gave him a good hearted chuckle, before hovering over his wounds.

And realizing she had no idea what to do.

Oh bother. Bother bother bother. What would Tiana do?

"Uhh...where does it hurt?"

"Just a few places." Kaidan laughs with a bit of a wince. He can tell the girl is nervous and scared-- and it kind of warms Kaidan's heart. Makes the pain a little more bearable.

"Do you think you can walk? Yutaka and I have a little camp up here..."

It didn't even occur to her that, perhaps, listing off who she was with and that they had a base camp was maybe not the best idea.

"Yeah, I can manage that." Kaidan says this like he's sure he can, but in reality it's not that much of a sure bet. Even if he wanted to hurt her or her partner, Kaidan is in no shape to do so. They could easily fell him.

"Here, here, let me help you darlin'."

Angling herself down, she gingerly looped an arm around her shoulders and looked back at him. "Ready to lift?"

Kaidan has to laugh. This girl... he needs her help to even stand. That rockslide must have knocked the hell out of him. "Yeah, ready as I'm going to be."

"One...two...three..." And than she pushed up with a grunt.

It wasn't easy to get him up. She was small and he was...not. Still, with a little bit of struggle, Lottie managed to find a good rhythm between them.