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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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Well, she wouldn't do that in the first place, but she simply nods her head and smiles, "I promise." She decides to further approach the man, and extend a helping hand in case he needed a little extra help while they moved around the arena, "And what's your name?"

"Commander Kaidan Alenko." Kaidan says tersely, shifting his weight from foot to foot as the pain gets more and more intense. He's had worse, truthfully, but broken bones are tough to ignore. Always have been. He shakes his head at Lily's offer-- what kind of military officer would he be if he couldn't handle something like this? He can walk, that's good enough until he gets what he needs to fix himself up. "Just... Kaidan is fine."

"Okay, so, Kaidan..." Her hand is brought back to her side, after he declines her offer. Still, it's obvious that she is still concerned and can still be heard in her voice as she speaks, "Where are we going?"

"Away from here. A rockslide isn't exactly subtle." Kaidan brings his uninjured hand up to his nose and feels the tender flesh there. Definitely broken. "Then we can worry about everything else."

"Okay!" With that, she doesn't take even take a seconds worth of hesitation to quickly turn on her heels in the direction away from the rock slide. "We should probably look for some water... and maybe some food."

And generally anywhere away from other tributes.

"Good idea." Even if it wasn't, Kaidan is in no position to argue. He tails after the girl with only a second worth of hesitation. If she could find anywhere to settle, for just a second, Kaidan would be thankful.

Lily had already made sure of their location. And with both of them deciding to head far from the rock slide while at the same time on the look out for a source of water and shelter, she was sure to keep her ears perked in order to hear the flowing water.

"I think somewhere, there's two rivers that come together just a couple minutes from here..." She says this while peeking over her shoulder, while taking small glances around her surrounding to make sure that the two of them were safe, "It's just below the cliff, so it probably shouldn't take long to get there."

Kaidan nods a bit, mainly focusing just on keeping one foot in front of the other. He's having a hard time doing that, keeping his mind on one task. He knows that he's knocked his head in the rockslide, so he makes himself pay attention. River, cliff, not a far way off. "Thanks, Lily."

She's biting her bottom lip, noticing just how hard the other was doing in his attempts to focus or to even just to continue walking. But with his words from earlier, there was little to nothing that she could say on the subject.

"It's alright, we should be helping each other in the first place!"

At least, she would like to help anyone else.

Kaidan pauses for a second, thinking back on his own party. He was out pretty hard, he didn't hear any canonfire... "During the rockslide, did you find anyone else? Was there a canon?"

She turned once again, her lips parted to speak but she quickly closed them to think over her next set of words.

"I... I did." She lowered her head, as her steps seemed to slow down as she could feel her stomach turn, "Were you with other people?"

She prayed not, but she knew that doing that would be a waste.

Kaidan falls silent, jaw clenching tight to try and muscle through the pain, to try and understand-- "Yeah, I was. Four others."

Her entire heart fell once she had heard that, "I...I-I'm," She's doing whatever she can to continue walking, without turning around and exposing her tears, "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, you don't need to be sorry." It's the gamemakers, the rockslide... god, Kaidan isn't one for violence, but sometimes fire needs to be met with fire. He's not an idiot.