[Uke]

"I am tired," He admitted, before pulling back his sleeves and showing the pin-prick red dots that went up his arms. "My Malu is not controllable. They were using liquid to stop it."

"Malu is what you call your powers, right?" Aireio asked. Q nodded. "They were drugging you to keep you in there, because they knew you'd be able to get out if you fought them."

"It seems so," Q replied.

The medic called to one of the children, who came rushing over with a bowl of some mashed violet thing. "Berry," She told Denum, holding up the bowl for him to smell. "No harm." She scooped some up and put it in her mouth. "See?"

She then scooped up a large clump and dropped it on LiSen's wound, rubbing it in. LiSen gasped - but not in pain, more in surprise at the sudden cold.

"Oh wow... that stuff is numbing it completely!" He breathed.