By the time Vala and Daniel are reunited with the others, the tables have completely turned and instead of Vala supporting Daniel, it's the other way round. His arm lodged in behind her back and tucked under her arm urging her onwards and forwards.
Sobek had renaged on his deal, which she should have seen coming so she'd had to pose as Sobek to get the Jaffa to take him to the Sarcophagus in a last minute panic. At least until the Jaffa scattered like rats in a sewer when the explosions intensified. Vala had to finish the job on her own amidst the chaos, dragging the archaeologist to the only thing that would save him. There just wasn't time though, Vala had been forced to open the Sarcophagus early, with Daniel only partially healed and the residual poison and a dead Sobek in her system for longer than was probably safe, Vala was growing weaker by the minute, and he wasn't looking much better. As her body failed her though, Daniel was slowly regaining his strength thankfully.
Despite their compromised health, that innate survival instinct has thoroughly kicked in however. Both of them dressed in the scant finery that Sobek favoured, brick dust having showered down on them and the evidence of more than a few brushes with falling debris and collapsing walls, they're managing to keep up quite the pace, mostly thanks to Daniel.
Somewhere along the way they've picked up a Zat gun, Vala's biggest fear at this point is that Sobek is just laying dormant inside her, regathering his strength and ready to return at any moment. She'd insisted Daniel was armed, ready to knock her out with an electric shock blast from the weapon at the first sign of Sobek's revival, incase he was playing 'blossom'.
It's not how they'd planned it, there should have been more time but the sarcophagus had been necessary and added precious time on to their escape that they couldn't afford, especially given the intensity and scale of the explosions.
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Sobek had renaged on his deal, which she should have seen coming so she'd had to pose as Sobek to get the Jaffa to take him to the Sarcophagus in a last minute panic. At least until the Jaffa scattered like rats in a sewer when the explosions intensified. Vala had to finish the job on her own amidst the chaos, dragging the archaeologist to the only thing that would save him. There just wasn't time though, Vala had been forced to open the Sarcophagus early, with Daniel only partially healed and the residual poison and a dead Sobek in her system for longer than was probably safe, Vala was growing weaker by the minute, and he wasn't looking much better. As her body failed her though, Daniel was slowly regaining his strength thankfully.
Despite their compromised health, that innate survival instinct has thoroughly kicked in however. Both of them dressed in the scant finery that Sobek favoured, brick dust having showered down on them and the evidence of more than a few brushes with falling debris and collapsing walls, they're managing to keep up quite the pace, mostly thanks to Daniel.
Somewhere along the way they've picked up a Zat gun, Vala's biggest fear at this point is that Sobek is just laying dormant inside her, regathering his strength and ready to return at any moment. She'd insisted Daniel was armed, ready to knock her out with an electric shock blast from the weapon at the first sign of Sobek's revival, incase he was playing 'blossom'.
It's not how they'd planned it, there should have been more time but the sarcophagus had been necessary and added precious time on to their escape that they couldn't afford, especially given the intensity and scale of the explosions.