Sisters in Arms
Paula had given Hylla something to knock her out before the pain became more unbearable than it was. Kinzie was nervously circling between holding her hand and hanging around Faith.
"And?" She kept asking.
"I'm still looking," Faith would say throwing another one of Paula's books off the shelf.
"Can't you call the healers that you worked with earlier?" Kinzie asked nervously.
"They're men."
"That's Hylla who's dying over there!" Kinzie said. "I don't care what the hell they reproduce with!"
"I know and I'd call them, but their number is blocked on all campus," Faith said.
Kinzie looked over her shoulder at Hylla who was knocked out. Her body still cringed with pain every now and then. Gods, they should have expected this from Miranda! According to Faith, she'd also used an accelerator in the poison to trigger its effects sooner than it should be. She'd probably been hoping to knock Hylla out while they were still fighting. Totally against the rules! Poison was the coward's weapon! That bitch. Nastier names flooded through Kinzie's mind, most of them part of a more colourful language that Hylla herself had initiated in Kinzie.
"Not if we use the Queen's phone," Kinzie said. "The one in the Chambers. Let's go!"
Kinzie grabbed the Queen's belt that lay on Hylla's side table. She swore to herself that Hylla would get to wear it. Cross my heart and hope to die. There was no way that Hylla was going to die now, after what she'd done for them.
They raced through the hallways and yelled at people to get out of their ways.
Nat and the Newcomers were by the doors.
"Move!" Kinzie cried when they were just coming close.
Kinzie hit the door and struggled to press the belt's pattern into the lock on the door. The doors swung open. Members of the Counsel got up and started protesting of their captivity there and how they knew nothing.
"Your Queen has given you orders, follow them!" Kinzie snapped as Faith grabbed the phone. Kinzie found a pad of paper and handed it quickly to Faith as she punched in the number.
The conversation was in Greek, so Kinzie spent most of it panicking and not registering a word.
Faith finished with "thanks, can't talk, emergency, bye" and hung up.
"Go!" She cried.
They raced back to the infirmary and as they ran, Faith yelled out the explanation.
"So Hylla would have ten hours on the clock if the poison was used in its natural form- without an accelerator," Faith said. "I've got a remedy that takes about an hour to make. If I've got everything I need, we'll be okay!"
"You'll have everything you'll need, we're the Amazons." Kinzie said. "How much time does Hylla have left since Miranda trafficked with the potion."
"No clue!" Faith said. "I'd have to know what the hell Miranda did to it. Hell, there might be something in Hylla's bloodstream that the usual remedy can't heal."
"What? So there's a chance that we're going to lose her even if we suppose that Miranda hasn't changed poisons," Kinzie said. "Or that she hasn't used two. Or if…"
"Kinzie," Faith said with frustration in her voice, "this is a message from Hylla: breathe!"
Kinzie's breath caught in her throat. That was the last thing Hylla had said before fighting.
Kinzie hadn't thought that even after Miranda was dead Hylla would be fighting for her life. Fighting in a way that she didn't know how to do, fighting in a way that was entirely up to her immune system and the gods…
There wasn't a person that Kinzie would want Hylla's hands in less than the gods.
