Kala only really had a slight moment to notice anything, and that barely happened before the third slaver slammed into her.  Upon hearing the thudding footsteps Kala turned her head.  She didn’t have time to react before stars erupted across her vision and went sprawling to the side.  She couldn’t pick herself up before she was pinned to the ground with the slaver’s hands around her neck.  If the first bash to the head was bad, the next few were worse.<br/><br/>The next few were against the floor.  Stars danced in her vision as she screamed out in pain with the shotgun being torn from her grasp.  With his hands around her neck, she couldn’t breathe at all.  Each time her head hit the floor, her vision clouded.  Didn’t stop her from struggling.  Reaching up and clawing at the hands around her throat, and then soon trying to get at his face.  To get him off her and stop him from hitting her head against the floor before he did some permanent damage.<br/><br/>Suddenly though the pressure around her throat ended as his hands were taken away.  She didn’t actually see what had saved her thanks to her blurry vision, and the coughing from her cut off air wasn’t helping.  All she was able to see is the dark skin color of whoever attacked the slaver.  Once his weight was finally off her she rolled to the side to finish coughing.  She never really got a chance to actually see the sick enjoyment on Ashana’s face at choking someone out.  If she had she would be terrified to ever speak with the woman again.<br/><br/>Once she recovered though she really didn’t get much of a chance to look around as she also saw the light, and the other two hiding the bodies.  Kala followed along quickly, also getting behind the cover and out of sight.  She couldn’t hear anything beyond the light sounding mumbles.  So she waited while rubbing her neck where the slaver had tried to choke her out.<br/><br/>Hearing Ashana speaking to her, Kala looked right back, ignoring the still spinning stars  in her eyes.<span style="color: sienna">“Ok… I’m good…”</span>she said simply, seeming to be still breathing hard.  Probably just short of going into shock.  She was just almost choked out.  And trying not to think about what her decision almost let happen.<span style="color: sienna">“I don’t know.  It is possible, and it looks out of the way enough to house a network hub.  If it is one, then yes, everything I need will be there.”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>