<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/74/Vixhead.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Victrix Starshine, Vix to her friends, Medic and Mercenary<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Carrion Crow's Ship<br/><strong>With:</strong>Helena, Jennifer and Jinny (but everyone else via commlink)<br/><br/>Helena's question made Vix realize that she hadn't done a very good job of explaining.  The fault was her own, of course, but she could rectify it.  Maybe the idea of trying to leave out all the specific medical details wasn't such a good idea.<br/><br/>"He wasn't killed after," she explained, moving back to the pirate which had been second in her explanation.  Putting the words to what she'd found also seemed to help to a degree, terrible as it was for a way to die.  "The killer, presumably deliberately, sliced open only the external jugular vein.  You get the carotid artery and blood goes everywhere, you have maybe one minute.  Internal jugular vein, about two minutes, and external, about five.  Now, it's a guess because an animal could just accidentally do that, but if so, you're looking at a slow, painful bleedout.  Mixed in with these other injuries, you're not going anywhere."<br/><br/>She stood back up.  "The one who was torn apart took a lot longer than five minutes.  The last thing the wounded one saw would be those five minutes or so of the..."  Her gloved hand gestured to the truly messy one, the last to die, not wanting to put it into words.<br/><br/>Vix consciously reminded herself that Reilly's Rogues weren't so incompetent and easily taken out as these pirates would be.  It helped, a little.<br/><br/>When Kiyanee gave the report, Vix nodded.  "Thank you, Kiyanee-sen."  Vix usually didn't use the honoric herself except for Kiyanee, understanding that it was something important to her and wanting to show that degree of respect.<br/><br/>"It's possible that the wounded one just quit struggling, so the 'live cargo' that Kiyanee-sen mentions just focused on the very last one.  I really hope that's the case, that it's more of an animal intelligence with no more of a sadistic streak than that of cats.  I guess we'll find out."