<span style="color: #0040FF">Delancey sighed with relief when he saw the others begin to move around him. Using his sweaty sleeve, he managed to get most of the blood and gore off his weapon before catching Seiria's victorious smile. He grinned back, filled with the knowledge that they had almost been killed. It made him glad to be alive. Seeing the Servial rushing over to Reed, his heart sank. <br/>She still looked like death and she wasn't moving.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">I didn't save her in time...</span> he thought dispairingly, his sight began to swim as he thought himself asw as an utter failure. He saw her fingeres twitch ever so slightly, but thought he imagined it. <span style="font-style: italic">She can't be dead... She just can't be...</span></span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">She knew nothing. Everything that reached her ears where garbaled, her sense of smell deminished. Never had she felt so completely alone. A distant warmth covered her skin deliciously, then everything exploded.<br/><br/>"Are you ok? Are you alright?" she heard the Servial practically yell in her ear. The golden metal in her ears bit deep into the soft skin in the uncalloused fold behind her ears from his frantic embrace. She tried to speak, but nothing came out. So instead, she brushed her fingure along his side, hoping that he could feel that she was alive.</span>