[Suzerain of Sheol]

Galla don't read this.

It's more a question of actually getting them in, and preventing infection. I mean, you need to apply a tourniquet, find a vein, cleanse the site, insert the catheter, and hope the vein doesn't burst (Not. Fun.). The prospect of doing that while in the throes of combat is... highly unlikely.

And on the other note, there's nothing preventing us from flooding IV fluids into the system *now*, the technology is certainly there, it's a matter of overloading the system, something I'm not quite sure you can just handwave away with "future"

(And besides, just me, if it was me, I'd rather have her crawl into a corner wracked with agonizing pain, vomiting uncontrollably, and end up having to stick herself a dozen times while her head's swimming and vision's blurring and she can see more of the snakes slithering near, before she finally gets the antitoxin flowing properly and blacks out -- but I'm gathering you may not be as keen on tormenting your characters as some of us are. :P)

Anyway, that's more or less the sort of thing I mean when I talk about consequences in writing. Just cause it's in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy setting, doesn't mean realism doesn't apply. It's actually more important than in other genres, since you're already asking your audience to buy into a whole bunch of crazy hypotheticals (what if God was dead, and the barriers between Heaven and Hell were deteriorating, and humans had to become monsters in order to survive, etc?) you need to give the readers some kind of grounding, and you do that in the little things like starting an IV that they can relate to.

And, she's very lucky that Thomas thinks so robotically -- she's human, and hasn't actually abetted a true AI, so her only real offense is reacting the way she did, he doesn't have a legal mandate to eradicate her at the moment, though she's clearly made herself apparent as a danger to the mission, he won't tolerate any further disturbances from her. The kiss and plucky taunting he couldn't really care less about, in his mind it was just a tactically stupid thing to do, he's neurologically incapable of taking things personally. :P