The spasm cut through her painfully, producing nothing. She'd almost wanted it to, that feeling when you know if you could just vomit it all up everything would be alright. But it wasn't just a case of being drunk or even food poisoning. Chuck up a few times and you rid yourself of everything and then just sleep it off. Vala tightened her grip on Daniel's hand, the only sign that Vala Mal Doran was actually scared by all this.

"We never leave a man behind." It was easy to repeat the mantra she'd heard so many times from Cameron, easier than admitting how her own life wouldn't seem worth living if she'd left Daniel behind. How that thought had never even crossed her mind, how she would have rather died back on the planet than returned without him. "Besides, if I had, Jack would probably come out of the pod caverns just to make my life hell."

Even like this, frightened for her chances she manages to twist it to be about her own neck, saving her own skin.