4...Eridium is a Siren's Best Friend

I leaned back a little, shocked by the question, "I've never tried. I'm not exactly good at being a Siren. Even though I've studied on myself numerous times, I still don't have a logical explanation for anything. It frustrates the heck out of me." I immediately regretted saying that, because I got another one of those memories. I saw the needles and saws and the bloody table, stained with my own red. I began to walk towards the table. I layed down and jammed on of the needles into my arm. I placed it back on the table and strapped myself down. The liquid began to kick in, and I lashed out at every movement I saw, or rather, was remembering.

I don't think I would have really noticed that I began to shake in real life, had Lilith not snapped me back to reality. "Hey! What was that? You flipped out." I shook my head, "It's nothing. I just was remembering my workshop." I paused, then whispered, "So much red, and it was all mine…" Lilith grabbed me by the shoulder, "Don't worry. Here on Pandora, everyone is broken," and she gave me a hug, then and there, which I had in no way expected. Her hand burned a bit, and I felt sick, but once again, it was pushed away. She let go and looked at her hand. It was bloody. I touched my shoulder, and suddenly realized why I didn't feel good. There was a bullet in my collarbone. I was immensely surprised that I hadn't noticed that it was a bullet, but then again my nerves were pretty weak from testing on myself.

I was grabbed by the robot on the red-headed teen's orders, and quickly taken from the little hideout to a small machine that teleport us to a city. "Sanctuary..." I read the sign and laughed. It was just plain funny. A town full of beaten down people protected by the best police- like system i've ever seen was named 'Sanctuary'. Lilith and the teenager walked beside the robot, with the other siren in front, and the rest of the group trailing behind.

"You put up and amazing fight with just your hands and that small knife. When you touched that guy, oh man, he was like ' No no no no! Please! Ahhhh!'. And you just stood there! Oh god. It was hilarious! You got anarchy, girl." The teenager pat my arm with her robotic one, and Lilith scowled. "Gaige, thats enough. She's got a bullet in her frickin' shoulder, and you're telling her how amazing melting a person is?" The teen smiled.

We pushed through a door into a place whom's sigh read 'Dr Zed's'. Lilith talked to the doctor, and he ushered towards the table. The robot put me down on it and the doctor looked at the bullet hole, "You've no shield on you, and your weak as heck. You're my kind of patient. I'll see what I can do."

He fixed me up, and gave me some sort of raw rock. My arm glew in anticipation. "Eridium, use it. It helps… people like you." I put it in my left hand and it melt into my skin like sunscreen. My mark turned a slight shade of purple before the stone sank into my tattoos. I shivered. It felt good. Awkward and good. "Thank you." You could hear how good it felt in my voice. "Your welcome. Can you walk?" The doctor held out his hand. "I took a bullet to the shoulder, not the knee." We laughed "I'll be alright."

I pushed open the door and found the group had left, except for Lilith and the other Siren. I walked out and was examined. They both looked over my tattoos, and noticed the purple tinge. "Eridium is good," the Siren said, "especially since you've no shield."

I shivered again. There were signals, I think, coming from everywhere. My mark turned gold again, and I grabbed my book of my back. I flipped to the page about feeling things. The signals were either coming from a substance or people. Obviously they were too large a signal to be people. I replaced the book. The Siren looked at me. "My name is Maya, by the way." Lilith and Maya finished their inspection, and pulled me towards a place called 'Moxxi's'. "Oh, no, no. I don't do bars." I said as we walked through the door. Then I noticed the bartender.