Alex kind of stumbled after Dan almost tripping a couple times. She just felt so dazed.
Dan went back to help her. Seeing that she didn't looked able to walk or climb up any stairs without assistance. "Trayaurus! Are you busy?"
"What do you need?" He called back from the testing chamber.
Alex leaned on Dan as she stumbled along.
Dan helped her over to a place to sit down. "I need water! Or milk. It doesn't matter, I just something for Alex!"
Trayaurus came out of the test chamber, carrying a bottle of water. "Here. What happened?" He asked, handing Dan the bottle, seeing as Alex didn't appear to be fully functioning.
She was trying to stay focused and he could tell she was struggling with just that.
"I don't know." Dan replied as he took the water. "She just zoned out for a minute and then this happened."
Trayaurus hummed slightly in thought.
Alex didn't look very well. She was barely awake.
"See if you can get her more responsive and I'll see if I can figure out what happened."
Alex seemed to be fighting off sleep. She tried to stay focused on them.
Dan decided to try communicating with her instead shaking her. "Alex, can you hear me? Alex?!"
Alex responded by looking at him, tiredly. She slightly nodded. "I-t hurts..." she managed to say.
Her eyes held pain in them. Her head was hurting, trying to remember what she didn't.
He remembered she said something like this before and glanced at Trayaurus. "Last time she said it was her head that hurts."
Trayaurus looked at him. "It could be she's trying to remember..." He said.
Alex laid back against the couch and squeezed her eyes shut.
For a moment, she didn't move or make any noise.
Trayaurus glanced at Dan.
Alex slowly reopened her eyes. The pain had subsided for now. "I... I think it's gone... And I remember some..."
Dan still looked worried and offered her the water bottle. "...What do you remember?"
She slowly took the water and drank some of it. She relaxed at the cold liquid running down her throat.
She finished drinking it and looked at him. "I remembered some more of how I got here...I think."
"Please, do tell." Trayaurus told her.
She closed her eyes again. "I was testing something...um... a helmet thing..." she said.
"It was storming. I put it on and I think there was a power surge and I just remember static buzzing in my ears, lights flashing in front of me, and a terrible shock like pain flowing through my body..."
As she said it out loud to them something dawned on her and she opened her eyes. "I... I could be dead...Or I should be..." She whispered quietly.
Trayaurus glanced at Dan, wondering if he knew anything about the helmet she was testing.
Dan was indeed pondering about this "helmet" that Alex had mentioned. He had order something like that if it was the same one but that couldn't be right.
"That is strange. Cause I'm actually waiting for a helmet that connects a player to a game...but." He stopped talking and looked at the two. "I'm still waiting for it."
Alex looked at him. "Yes! That's it. That's what I was using!" she said, that bit of memory unlocking as he brought it up.
Trayaurus looked at Dan. "But how are you here if you don't have it?"
"I have no idea!" He exclaimed. "I'm still thinking it's a dream but I could be wrong but then again...I don't know."
Alex looked at him. "But how could you be dreaming if I'm here too?" she questioned confused.
Trayaurus gave a small groan. "I'm going to continue my tests. Try not to pass out again." he told Alex.
She just nodded as he walked off.
Alex soon noticed the lab's lightning was growing darker.
She pulled the wolf close to her.
Grim stayed near Dan seeming tense and on guard.
"It's getting dark again... The monsters will come back..." Alex whimpered softly.
"Yeah. They will." Dan agreed, his voice sounding calm about this. "Lucky for us, they can't get inside. Thanks to a lot of light and very strong walls." He explained.
"Oh...Ok." she replied softly. She sat there awkwardly for a moment. "Um... Thanks for letting me stay here... and for helping me..."
Dan looked at her. "Oh. Your welcome but you might not want to thank me just yet."
A noise come from one of the dark halls.
"Trayaurus is doing most of the work." He quietly added.
Alex squeaked when she heard something in the hall heading there way.
A small groan echoed down it.