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“I’ll take care of him later,” Brianna said “You first”

The alar

He tried to sit up, but she pushed him back down “Dude, you are hurt bad”

“Yeah,” Sam admitted “Hurts Like fire”

“There’s this,” she said doubtfully She held up an ocher-colored blister pack The label read “Morphine Sulfate Injection USP 10 ”

Saritted his teeth The painhe could endure Like his flesh was burning, like soainst his skin

“I don’t know,” Sah his teeth

“We need Lana,” Brianna said

“Yeah,” Sam said “Too bad I sent Dekka to kill her”

He lay there feeling waves of pain so great, they made him want to throw up The morphine would dull the pain But it would also probably take him out of the battle No one else could stop Caine No one else…

He had to function…had to…

He cried out in agony, unable to hold it in, unable to stop himself

Brianna tore open the blister pack and jabbed the syringe into his leg

A wave of relief swept through him But with it, weariness, weirdness, and a drea down and down and down into a dark place Letting hi down at him as he fell toward the center of the earth

A resource, so