She'd done it. The creature before her writhed and spat as it fought against the restraints, blood from where its extra limbs had been before slowly pooling at its own feet. When the outbreak first happened, Shaylith was careful to stay away from large groups, isolating herself in the control suite and refusing entry to those she knew were infected. It was supposed to be a cure.. a vaccine.. She couldn't think about that now.
Hesitant at first, Shaylith would reach a bony claw out to the twisted Drael scooping a small amount of blood from its wound and making her way to a nearby console. It was after all just.. genetics. She had edited and synthesized genetics for most of her life, breeding new beasts of war for the Bryn.. and shaping her own form to something more practical. That was after all why she was here, experts on genetics was needed and she was one of the best available to them. She would smear the blood across a small panel, which would illuminate and begin scanning and sequencing the genetic sample. From everything she could tell the disease was spread through saliva into the blood system where it would be spread through the host's body and begin the mutation process.. but there were so many more unanswered questions. Did it continue to mutate? Or did it stop? What triggered it to stop? If there was a trigger, could it happen immediately before the first mutation had even occurred? She needed to know, a vaccine, a cure, anything that could end this threat. She needed to at least start by seeing how exactly the DNA was tampered with.
As the screen lit up she would hear a noise.. She could fight, but lacked any actual weapon and a hand to hand combat against these.. things was not going to end well. But.. there was no where to hide, especially with the length of her serpentine body. Her hand would bury itself in a control panel, ripping it from its hinges before reaching in and tearing off a pipe she deemed unimportant. It would give her the advantage but-
Her thoughts would be interrupted by the emergence of a Zealot Shadow. He would pause, glancing at the captured specimen and then to Shaylith brandishing a pipe like it would actually do something. "Who are you..?" he would demand "Shaylith.. Researcher here.-" she would gesture to the captured mutant "I'm trying to.. find a vaccine, a cure, I'm sequencing the genetics of-" She would get cut off by the Shadow "No time. Collect what you can and leave we've been deployed to destroy the facility." "You can't do that! My research! My equipment! I need this to work on a feasible vaccine!" If this imbecile of a Shadow was going to listen to her she'd need proof.. and that was going to take a while.
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Hesitant at first, Shaylith would reach a bony claw out to the twisted Drael scooping a small amount of blood from its wound and making her way to a nearby console. It was after all just.. genetics. She had edited and synthesized genetics for most of her life, breeding new beasts of war for the Bryn.. and shaping her own form to something more practical. That was after all why she was here, experts on genetics was needed and she was one of the best available to them. She would smear the blood across a small panel, which would illuminate and begin scanning and sequencing the genetic sample. From everything she could tell the disease was spread through saliva into the blood system where it would be spread through the host's body and begin the mutation process.. but there were so many more unanswered questions. Did it continue to mutate? Or did it stop? What triggered it to stop? If there was a trigger, could it happen immediately before the first mutation had even occurred? She needed to know, a vaccine, a cure, anything that could end this threat. She needed to at least start by seeing how exactly the DNA was tampered with.
As the screen lit up she would hear a noise.. She could fight, but lacked any actual weapon and a hand to hand combat against these.. things was not going to end well. But.. there was no where to hide, especially with the length of her serpentine body. Her hand would bury itself in a control panel, ripping it from its hinges before reaching in and tearing off a pipe she deemed unimportant. It would give her the advantage but-
Her thoughts would be interrupted by the emergence of a Zealot Shadow. He would pause, glancing at the captured specimen and then to Shaylith brandishing a pipe like it would actually do something. "Who are you..?" he would demand "Shaylith.. Researcher here.-" she would gesture to the captured mutant "I'm trying to.. find a vaccine, a cure, I'm sequencing the genetics of-" She would get cut off by the Shadow "No time. Collect what you can and leave we've been deployed to destroy the facility." "You can't do that! My research! My equipment! I need this to work on a feasible vaccine!" If this imbecile of a Shadow was going to listen to her she'd need proof.. and that was going to take a while.
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