[Lawtan]

Rurik saw the man…the helpful one…chased by a handful of the slippery-scaled fellows…but another, a rusty black-brown and milky belly-crawler was among them, with ivory horns. Rurik’s rear legs bent, the rotors resisting gravity’s pull to sit, and leapt across the corridor. With a crunch and release of bodily spew, the front paws landed on a sandy viper clinging to an abandoned scarf. Springs dampening the impact, Rurik bounded again, visual sensors trying to identify the odd snake of the two chasing Dante.

[Snake.colors == {33000, fffaa; 04400, ffaac}
Snake.pattern == 2:1_upperlower _ratio
Snake.head == Large and narrow, coffin-like
Snake.bodysize ~~ 2.2 meters
Identifying snake…]

Rurik was catching up, but Dante’s pace slowed as he seemed weakened. The odd snake hissed loudly, angrily…like a cross between a rattle and steam. The dark snake collided with the man, and bit hard. Oddly, the man did not seem to notice this one, but the sandy snake sent him falling. A third snake Rurik snapped with powerful jaws of steel canines, crushing the flying meat-spine.

[Snake identified…
Unknown.snake == Dendroaspis polylepis mortus]

Rurik rapidly clawed at the creatures, tearing snake meat from bone and freeing the convulsing Dante from their bites. Still, the Devil’s Mamba tried to strike Rurik’s hide, black mouth open. Rurik answered with a bite to the head, and continued to the man. Almost in mourning…for a robot…he curled his flexible tail around Dante, Rurik began tugging the man. Kadia would have to help him…

Dante began vomiting, but otherwise, his limbs hung, paralyzed. Rurik turned the feverish, unconscious Dante so as to avoid bile-choking. Rurik pedaled faster forward towards Kadia and Thomas, unleashing a mental cry.

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A howl in her head alerted her to Rurik, bounding towards her, a convulsing Dante behind, slowing him down. Kadia ran towards the pair. Dante was a mess of puke, with red/black blood streaming from three bite wounds…

Kadia had Rurik keep Dante on his side, and opened the aid box inside of Rurik. Grapping one of Rurik’s syringe-pumps, and a relaxant, she administered that to Dante to reduce the convulsing. Now able to grab the bitten limbs, she wrapped chords around them, greatly reducing the bloodflow momentarily to those limbs. She could not flush such toxins out of Dante’s system, and he had went eerily still. With another syringe, she tried multiple antivenoms…to little effect. Limited, Kadia did the only thing possible. Cleaning the blood away, she tied Dante’s limb stiff, and injected the two now-empty syringe-pumps near the black-red swollen bite-marks on the leg. Pulling in reverse, despite being a near futile effort, she tried to draw the tainted blood. In coagulated clumps, it collected…
Dante was starting to grow stiff. His pulse and breath were...nothing. Kadia, frantic to not let another person die…not again…withdrew the syringes. She charged her hands with the weak holy healing she posessed. Shoulders over his chest, in a vertical position above his sternum, she began CPR.

“One…Two…Three…Four…Live!”

The dim light from her hands flowed into Dante to no effect. She went down and forced a breath through his still mouth. She got back up, and repeated, not quite remembering the proper count…

"You...Have...To...Live!" Kadia had tears raining from her eyes...desperate.