Karin slowly woke up once more. Having fallen asleep in rhino's arms at some point during the journey though as she looked around weakly she realized that she was not only in some kind of large tent but there was someone next to her.

When she saw the figure next to her with a hand over her wound her first instinct was to try and jerk away to get some distance though that same hand at her side quickly planted itself down on her chest with enough force to keep her pinned and cause her some degree of pain.

"Don't move so much… since her loss she's always been more… aggressive in treating patients that aren't very cooperative…"

Looking to her other side she saw a teenager like herself sitting on a log, a distant expression in his eye, with a large scar across the other.

"You gave us quite the scare karin… you're lucky to be alive…" continued the teen though he focused on her and realized something. "You, don't recall me do you?"

A slow shake of her head was the simple answer though it did cause him to look over to the one that held her down, the larger armored figure finally moved her hand off to continue the treatment, a eery green light coming from that hand in moments.

"Did she suffer any kind of trauma trin?"

It slowly nodded, karin vaguely remembered that nickname and recalled the full name soon after though as she looked at trinity, the healer, she noticed that one of her arms and a good portion of her side was blown off, the fact that she was still able to be of use was a miracle of its own though the nod she gave caused the teen to sigh and shake his head.

"Great. Do what you can. I'll tell the others."

Trinity nodded and continued in silence, the teen standing up and heading for the exit of the tent, a momentary blast of direct sunlight blinding karin before he was out, she was silently grateful when the darkness returned as the entrance was closed

The one armed trinity moved up and seemed to do a quick examination of karin's head, specifically the back of her head, after she was done she stood up and headed out as well, leaving her there alone.

It took very little time before Karin became restless, forcing herself up she slowly headed to the exit, careful to not overtax herself despite the treatment she had received earlier, she could hear people outside, children, shaking her head she went outside.

The sunlight was the first problem, the bright rays quickly forced her to raise her arm to block it out though afterwards she looked around and was shocked.

She saw several other people, more than that she saw them with weapons. From shotguns to sniper rifles, she could have sworn she saw one of them carrying a rocket launcher on his back before someone came over to her, the same teen as before.

"Karin? You should be resting."

"I've had enough rest... Where are we?"

He'd frown momentarily at the question before remembering she had memory problems. "We're at Cetus. What's left of it anyway. The Unum's tower is still able to keep some degree of peace despite the, damage the sentients caused it."

She raised a brow, The Unum sounded familiar and he seemed to notice that before motioning for her to look somewhere, in the far distance a massive white tower stood tall out of the waters, a fair amount of gold lined its structure but what caught her attention was that one side of the tower seemed to have been ripped off and several dozen signs of explosives riddled the structure, ruining the formerly pristine white.

"It.. it's seen better days?"

Her attempt to lighten the mood seemed to have failed and caused the other one to shake his head. "Yes. it has.. Unfortunately we do not have the resources here to even try and repair it. Or any of our frames…. Let alone rebuild yours."

Hearing that caused karin to feel like someone had just delivered a firm kick to her chest, she grinded her teeth in pained anger before looking back to the other one who had taken a step back as he saw her hands start to glow brightly.

"Calm down Karin, we can't deal with more trouble right n-"

"Where's my ship?"

He raised a brow at that though she repeated her question with a colder, more menacing tone.

"Its…. gone. After you were fired upon by the Hydrolyst and we lost contact with you Ordis went into a blind rage. He crashed your liset into one of the grineer fomorians after uploading himself into their network… he took control of one shortly after, the last confirmed information we have on him is that he took the fomorian to the main sentient fleet and fired on them… there's no way he survived the encounter."

Karin could hardly believe what she was hearing, her ship, her friend, gone, it couldn't be possible, she knew that her cephalon was, unstable, to say the least but to think that he would go that far, no, there had to be something, he couldn't be gone, he just couldn't!

"...karin."

He slowly moved closer and hugged her, her hands had began to shake again, the disbelief and pain of what she had just heard was just too much, first umbra was gone, now Ordis, it just, wasn't fair.

She didn't move, she wanted this all to be a nightmare that she could just wake up from, that she would wake back up in her liset, in that chair and that everything would be perfectly fine but no, fate wouldn't be that nice to her, this was all too real.

Others looked at the pair for a moment in curiosity, the Ostrons seemed confused and some took the wrong idea from it while the others that either knew or were tenno themselves had a rough idea of what was happening and left them be.

After a few more minutes he'd slowly let go of her before reaching a hand into his pocket "we. can't rebuild him but i know how attached you were to umbra so. I convinced the others to digitize what you had with you…" he'd take out a small metallic data tag and hand it to her, a simple material string had been worked through one of the smaller holes to make a sort of necklace for her.

A smile slowly crept onto her face as she took it before nodding in thanks and slipping it on though as she did her head hurt for a moment, only a moment though when it passed she remembered his name.

"Thanks Jax. I appreciate it."

"Don't mention it. Now come on. We need to get you back into a frame and out there. There are reports that the sentients are readying another attack on the tower and we don't know if it can take another big hit like that."

She stepped back and took a moment to work herself up for what was to come though as she did her head hurt again and she remembered bits of what happened on that field when she tried to return to umbra, a large blast ripped through most of his body during the transfer, she was barely able to stop it in time before a second one devastated the rest of him, the backlash of pain from both her own body and the link to umbra flooded through her, causing her to pass out.

"N. no. not again.. I'll support you from here but i'm not going back into another frame. Not again."

Jax raised a brow in surprise and tried to tell her that she needed to but her voice took on a desperate tone that frightened him, having him accept her refusal.

"Karin. What happened to you out there? I've never seen you like this…"

She quickly dodged the question, asking him what kind of forces they were to expect and despite how much he wanted to know what happened to his friend jax caved and told her.

"The hydrolyst. A small contingent of battalysts and conculysts. Apparently the grineer have been able to cause them some annoyance around one of the outer worlds and drag enough of their forces away to make this easier."

"When is the attack supposed to arrive?"

"Two nights from now. Though knowing them they are as likely to come tonight after getting more troops here."

She nodded slightly before looking to her hands. "Do you have an amp?"

Jax nodded before reaching to a device on his arm, pulling it off he handed it to her.

"Single shot and charge. Don't break this one? Its my last one."

His request caused her to chuckle before slipping it on, after moving her hand around slightly to get a good fit she looked back to him.

"Thanks. Where are the others?"

He motioned to a large tent in the distance before asking her if she was going to be alright, despite the yes she gave him he still seemed concerned but gave in and started to go somewhere else.

Jax looked over his shoulder though towards karin as she headed towards the tent with the others before shaking his head as he reached a large figure looking down at him, frost, primarily black with gold accents.

"Seems we're going to be having a rough few nights my friend…"