“<span style="color: #006600">Evy, does the ship have what would be needed for the doc to make some more of my pills? If we can get to the base and make them, or go back to the ship to get me a new supply, then I won’t be much of a lure or hindrance any more.”</span><br/><br/>Evy flickered next to Alicia and answered her question in a demure and quiet tone.<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“There are no ingredients or pills on the ship…” </span>Suddenly her eyes opened wide and she seemed both shocked and terrified as her form clicked loose from the power source of the ship. Only Alicia could sense the disturbance as Evy seemed to grasped desperately around her.<br/><br/><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“A-alica… The ship.. The ship is being attacked! I can’t contact the main power source, and something is really, terribly wrong there. I have about 9 hours of power left in the comms you’re wearing. I… I don’t think its wise to return there. I don’t know what happened!”<br/>
</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #b30000">"Ah dont think we ought to head back at this point... Considern' how long it took us to get down here, it'll take a lot longer to get back up." </span>Issy cooed.<span style="color: #b30000">"Besides, tha' new bloke had ta come from somewhere, right? I reckon he could show us the way!”</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“I think Issy is right. We should head forwards to the base. It will be easier, faster and perhaps safer to get there. Trixx and Luna can be helped in the medic bay there, and the base has an enormous supply of protection gear and strong walls to help us against any attack. Despite the base being empty now, we don’t know what happened that caused the first group to disappear like that. We’re being hunted, and thwarted and our own ship has already been found. Our chances are slim either way. We need to know who or what is hunting us! And if I get connected to the ground base, I can acces the video-surveillance there.”</span><br/><br/>Evy tried to sound rational, but fear was clearly evident in her facial features. The young AI had never expierenced something as unsettling as the last few hours. Her normally mischievous behaviour was not met with death and despair, and she didn't want to endanger the group any more than she already had. Nevertheless, even if Alicia had taken her pills in time, the group of cats would still have attacked them. Perhaps it was a blessing they had been distracted by the urge of mating, rather than trying to kill them ruthlessly as they were known to do.<br/><br/><b><span style="text-decoration: underline"><br/>
In the meantime at Luna and Trixx</span></b><br/><span style="color: #0059b3">“You need to run. Our friends are coming to save us, and if you’re still here, they might hurt you. Leave us, and fly to safety!”<br/>
</span><br/>The moths seemed to nod, almost bow towards Luna in an eerily humanoid way. Every moth got up simultaneously and left single file, flying away into the darkness and leaving the trembling dryad behind. They would be keeping her in sight, out of sight of the others. Almost as if a small link between the dryadi kept them knowledgeable about her whereabouts.<br/><br/><span style="color: #0059b3">“So, um, Evy, I don’t suppose this moth slime might have some... weird effects?”</span>Luna wiggled uncomfortably, and the sudden jolt of pleasure made her gasp. “<span style="color: #0059b3">It’s not just me, right? I’m not stuck like this, right? I can’t do research like this! It’s hard to even think!”</span><br/><br/>Evy tried her best to smile reassuringly towards the small woman. Despite the sudden fear she had gotten from the entire situation getting worse and more dangerous.<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“Don’t worry Luna, nothing a good scrub won’t solve I hope. There is no knowledge about these moths in my databank, but I’m sure you’ll research the substance once we get to a safe place.”</span><br/><br/>It was at that exact moment that Akris, the new addition to the group, bellowed and threw himself over the mushroom patch. With a clumsy stumble he impaled his spear into the tree trunk and slipped his hand over the naked form of Luna. The heavy weight of the halfbreed pressed the poor girl deeper into the mushroom tissue, though luckily it was like a soft featherbed substance. Luna would hardly be harmed, though more soaked in the aphrodisiac of the shrooms than ever. Even Akris would feel a tingling sensation in his skin if he was sensitive to the drugging liquid.<br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000">“I got her!”</span>Evy heard Akris shout towards the big bovine.<br/><br/><span style="color: #0000b3">"Evy, any idea's how this will be easier?"</span>Berrac slipped his fingers beneath her body and very slowly and gently tried to see if he could get her up. "Akris, keep watch.”<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“I think you can just rip the mushroom of the tree and take both girls with you like that? Should be the quickest and easiest way. We wouldn’t want to linger around, not with all the noise and shouting you’ve just done. There are predators everywhere!”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>