<strong>"Of course..."</strong>Sophronia's mouth was set in a hard line. She left her people to tend to themselves for the moment. As gruesome as it was, it had been clear enough that whatever the things that had killed their friends were, they were dangerous to leave alone.<br/><br/>The vines lost their vigor and quickly wilted as the power that sustained them waned. Sophronia picked her way through the carnage until she reached the bodies of her fallen soldiers. The bodies... weren't pretty. She swallowed the lump in her throat and produced a pair of shrouds from the same place she got all of her clothes, nowhere, and covered the bodies carefully.<br/><br/>She tucked their arms in and wrapped them as best she could for the moment. The others would have to carry them back to the bus to be properly cared for later.