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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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Lottie had seen the whole thing, including the man who had gone down with it. Waiting against the three, she closed her eyes, counting to hear the canons she had learned meant death.

When none came for some time after the rocks had settled, she realized sitting here and waiting wasn't the best idea. If he wasn't dead, he might be alive and if he was alive he probably wanted her dead.

Except the way back to her camp...had just been wiped out by the rock slide.

Lily could remember just barely hearing the rock slide as she had decided to stay high in a tree in hopes to hide away from a few other tributes. Though soon enough, she had to come down, and began her own walk to continue avoid any blood-thirsty tributes that were aiming for her head.

Though surely enough, with the appearance of the terribly hurt man not far from her, the young girl threw away her worries with a new concern.

"E-Excuse me?" She was shocked, really, since his wounds were the only things that Lily had been paying attention to, "Do you... Do you need help?"

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.

Kaidan prides himself in not jumping when a unknown voice comes just out of sight. He's heavily injured, dizzy, and completely vulnerably. Just because the voice of whoever is out there sounds kind, he doesn't want to let his guard down. Backing into a tree, Kaidan surveys his surroundings as much as he can. He spots the head of blond hair after a second-- Another girl, another child.

He doesn't let his guard down, though. the Marine in him won't allow it. "That depends right now. Are you another tribute?" If not, Kaidan might have struck his head a little harder than previously thought or the gamemakers were getting awfully imaginative.

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.

"Um... yes."

At first, she doesn't quite understand as to why he would ask such a question. Everyone she just so happened to stumble upon had happened to unfortunately be a tribute, which kept the young girl traveling from one location to the next in attempts to avoid them.

Though this has proved to be - since it had happened a few other times - nearly a complete failure.

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."

"Damnit." Kaidan winces, not only because his body hurts-- but she's a kid. What the hell was she doing here, fighting for her life? It's cruel, forcing children to kill and adults to kill them. He was 30, how could anyone think he would hurt a teenager? Rubbing his forehead with the back of his good hand, Kaidan tries to keep Lily in focus. "What's your name?" Kaidan tries not to think about his hand. He'll set it later, if he survives.

"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.

She didn't understand that.

How someone immediately frowned or felt some kind of sympathy once they had realized that Lily was nothing more than a child. While they looked at her as something like an easy target, she was all too aware - too scared - of the possible harm she may cause in case she may become frightened by another tribute.

However, she simply shakes her head and pushes that all aside before answering, "My name is Lily." And here comes an awkward pause, "I, um... I'd like to help you."

That is, if he'd allow her to even get that close. Since she's already met up with a few tributes that are dead set on distancing themselves from everyone else.

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.

Oh, what the hell. What could possibly go wrong? He'd just got caught in a rockslide. "Sure, just, uh, promise not to kill me while I'm down?" He doesn't know if Amy survived, but she's who he wants to go find first; even if healing enough to just get up back to where they were would take a few days at the bare minimum.

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.

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?"

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."

"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.

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.

"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.

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?"

"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?"

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."

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."

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.

"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.

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