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Teyla dragged Sheppard back through the bushes and away from the model dart that the natives seemed to be using for target practice. The Earthman swore and used a few words she had not heard from them before, but she did not believe these were ones that bore repeating.

She quickly checked him over. The musket ball had gone through his arm, a clean in and out wound. It bled copiously, but once the bleeding was stopped, it would heal quickly.

"Son of a—" Sheppard hissed as she applied pressure to the wound. "Are you okay?" he asked her tightly.

"I am fine," she said, reaching to dig in his pack for something to bind the wound with. They had sent the first aid kit from the Puddle Jumper and most of the contents of their personal kits down to Lieutenant Ford for he and Doctor McKay.

Sheppard shoved her down as another cannon ball whistled through the air over their heads.

"This is madness," Teyla growled, pulling herself out from under the

Major. She remembered the man kept a cloth for wiping his nose in his back pocket and she reached around him shoving her hand into the hip pocket to look for it.

"Hey? Whoa, Teyla," Sheppard cried in startled protest. "I mean it's flattering and all, but I don't think right now is the best time to-"

Her searching fingers latched on to the bit of cloth and she glared at him as she jerked it out of his pocket. It didn't matter what planet they were from men were still men.

"Ow!" Sheppard protested as she cinched the cloth over the wound just a little tighter than was actually necessary, but he did have the good graces to a bit abashed.

"Sorry," he mumbled.

She checking to make sure the bleeding was slowing. She nodded in satisfaction that it was.

Another cannonball sailed in to smash into part of a ruined wall causing it and the ground under it to collapse.

"We must stop them. Lieutenant Ford and Doctor McKay will surely be crushed if this goes on for much longer," she said, moving to get a better look at the line of men facing them from across the open ground.

"Well, if you got any ideas of how to stop them, I'm listening," Sheppard told her.

Teyla considered a moment and then got to her feet.

"Teyla?" Sheppard said, frowning, struggling to rise.

"Stay," she told him, creeping forward.

"'Stay'?" he repeated incredulously. "What am I, a dog? Where are you going?"

Teyla ignored him and got to position she could get a clear view of the native men. She took a deep breath and stood up, waving her arms.

"Stop!" she shouted to them. "Stop shooting!"

One of the men in the center of the group saw her and quick drew the attention of the others. Teyla braced ready to duck back into cover if they started shooting again, but they didn't.

Several from the center of the group started forward. A dark haired older man and two young men who looked to be barely out of their teens.

"Ho, there!" one of the older men shouted back. "What are you doing here? You could have gotten killed!"

"We are travelers," she said quickly, hearing Sheppard coming up behind her. "I am Teyla Emmagan and this is Major John Sheppard," she said, turning to glance at Sheppard.

The Earthman came up beside her, his P90 held loosely in the hand of his uninjured arm.

The older man's eyes widened as he saw Sheppard join her. "Oh, by all that is holy. We did not know that you had stumbled into the 'forbidden cove'. Did you not see the signs of warning?"

"No, we didn't," Sheppard told him.

"I am Celib and this is Micha and Aron," he said, motion to the two young men that had come with him. He turned to the one. "Micha, tell the others to stop and what has happened."

The young man nodded and ran off toward the others.

"How badly are you injured?" Celib said, coming toward Sheppard. "You do not know how upsetting this is. Nothing like this has happened in many years."

"I'll be fine," Sheppard said, easing his grip on his weapon and letting it hang down at his side. "But we've got two men down in the caverns below the ruins and we need to get them out."

"The Pit?" Aron stared at them in wide eyed wonder.

"I guess you could call it that," Sheppard said hesitantly. "McKay was exploring the ruins when the ground opened up under him and he fell in. Ford went down after him."

"This is most grave," Calib said, his brows knitting up in concern. "I am afraid they are lost. None has ever come out of the Pit once they have fallen in. If the fall itself did not kill them, the demon that lives in the Pit soon will. I am very sorry."

"Demon?" Teyla repeated, shooting a look at Sheppard.

"Yes," Calib said, pointing up at the model of the Wraith Dart. "The Demon that fell from the sky in an air wagon such as that."

"This day couldn't get any better if it tried," Sheppard groaned, scrubbing a hand across his face.