Time has no meaning on Stacy! Bendytimed like woah!

[valaunbound]

For the archeological team that went to Kalimba on Stacy's mission, they've been gone for six months give or take. Six months of being held prisoner and tortured. None of them have any idea that they've only been gone a few days as far as the rest of Stacy are concerned, something they'll discover sooner rather than later presumably.

When they do arrive back Vala's on the brink of collapse, barely able to stand up or stay conscious. She'd been injected with poison and used as a booby trap for the Goa'uld Sobek that had used Daniel as a host for six months and she still has the dead Goa'uld inside her. Whether it's that or the poison that's in her system or the signs of malnutrition or a combination of all of the above is unclear but in a nutshell, she's not looking good even if the naquadah in her bloodstream is helping her a little.

Right now she's laid out on a bed in medbay, still dressed in the skimpy ceremonial Goa'uld robes and hoping someone knows how to get this 'thing' that's wound itself around her spinal chord out of her. When she can stay lucid enough to think about it that is.

[OOC: Open to those who were on the Kalimba mission and Medical Staff]

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[justoutrunyou]

A scruffy looking young girl seems to appear from nowhere, trying to very subtly read the information chart at the foot of Vala's bed curiously. She's not dressed very professionally. She looks more like a homeless kid who's wandered in.

[valaunbound]

The room doesn't seem to real to Vala, when she opens her eyes and looks around taking in the girl everything seems to shift in a dizzying haze making her feel nauseous. Her stomach wrenches and she looks like she's about to vomit as her head instinctively rises with the spasm her stomach induces. She flops back onto the bed weakly however, her body's trying to rid itself of the poison but failing.

"I see I'm in safe hands," she manages to say, even her sarcasm doesn't quite come across in her weakened state.

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy rose an eyebrow and smirked before moving around the side of the bed and drawing out a basin.

"I'll have you know while I look like a kid, I'm actually 300 years old and I've studied more medical books then you've had socks." She shot back as cool as she could turning to what passed for a sink and filling the basin up with cool water.

[valaunbound]

Vala didn't have the energy to quip back, it was taking everything she had just to follow the conversation with the poison affecting her perception or grip on reality even. That sentence about socks had seemed awfully long.

She strains, trying to see what she's doing. A bowl of water was hardly going to fix anything or get the reptilian symbiote out of her. "I just want it out, not take it for a swim."

[justoutrunyou]

"Yeah, sorry about that."

she took a wash cloth and dipped it into the water, "Actually I'm just a trainee. So I'm not much help yet. But I figure this might make you feel a little better till the professionals figure out what to do with you."

Wringing out the cloth she folded it neatly and lay the cool moist fabric over her forehead hoping to sooth her a little.

[valaunbound]

It helps. The coolness of the cloth sinking into her forehead and making her think more clearly somehow. As soon as Sandy lays the fabric over her head, she'll be able to feel how hot her patient is. It'll only take a minute or so and the heat will permeate through to her hand.

"There's a snake-like creature inside me. What's there to figure out?" Impatience is one of Vala's many flaws, she's giving no mind to the fact she has an largely unknown toxin in her system that will need to be flushed first.

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy seems startled by the heat, impressed even and as such moves back over to where she got the water to add some ice to the bowl.

"It's probably more complicated then that. These things usually are." She joked weakly coming back with the ice water to refresh the damp cloth with a much cooler one.

"Can you feel where it is?" Sandy was doing her best to be professional but it was all so gross and exciting and weird and worrisome. She couldn't decide which emotion was strongest.

[valaunbound]

"I wish I couldn't," she says flatly. The sensation an all too familiar memory that lasted far too long. Seven years she'd had one of these inside her, and even though Sobek was dead it was a sickening reminder. Thoughts that she usually kept suppressed came flooding back in a moment at the question, but the presence of the goa'uld intertwined in her spinal chord was frighteningly reminiscent, as if Qetesh had left a space for him.

"How long are they going to take?" Vala blurted out impatiently to snap herself out of her depressing thought train.

[justoutrunyou]

"I can't say for sure." Sandy confessed honestly, "But this ship has such a mismatched collection of medical geniuses and magical powers it shouldn't be too long. Not too long ago we picked up a whole bunch of shiny new medical machines so I'm sure we've got something for the job. It's just a matter of making sure we know what we're doing before we put you in one of the machines." She smiled ruefully as if that was encouragement.