Rain was amazed at what she saw when the stranger finally looked at her directly. His eyes were goggles which fascinated her. She could see small surgical scars lining his body. She wondered just how much of his body was modified and what they were for precisely.

[quote]"Keep the Gods asleep," he spoke in a croaking voice. "The Singer sings, but not enough. Amplification is necessary. Machinery powered by sleeping imprisoned, converted energy siphoned to the Singer, the Gods sleep. The Gods slept." He rocked gently. "You're --"[/quote]

Magic and technology working together in unison! Rain had never thought such an idea was practical, and she was considered eccentric for her experiments with steamtech. Suddenly lightning crashed and Rain managed to cover only one ear with her working arm. She slipped as the boulder of cement that came crashing down next to her caused her to lose her balance. She slid into it sideways fortunately on her less injured side. Surprisingly enough, she found that she was much less startled by each instance of near-death that happened to her, but she was still shocked nonetheless.

As suddenly as everything happened it all stopped. Ears ringing -- left worse than right -- Rain grasped at the rebar sticking out of the concrete block and pulled herself up with her right arm. Her fingertips had been shredded to the bone from her fall causing her to wince more as she realized more damage that had been inflicted to her body from this ordeal. She hissed in pain as she hobbled to her feet and looked around for the man that she had been talking with to find him face first in the water.

"Oh that can't be good," She muttered to herself. "URGH! Worst. Day. Ever. Even the day I was caught was better than this!"

She clamored over to the body and noticed that there was no blood. She stared in amazement at the coppery gash before she took a breath and dunked into the water to get her right shoulder under him. With that leverage she lifted him painfully out of the water and dragged him to the now broken gear and leaned him against the concrete boulder. She then scanned the boulder and noticed that some parts of the rebar were pinned to the gear in such a way she could in fact relocate her arm.

Biting down on the cloth of her shirt, Rain slipped her arm into a decent spot and twisted it back into place with a loud pop and a muffled yell. She teared up slightly before letting out a sigh of relief. She moved her left arm gingerly and it ached back at her, but at least she could operate it again.

She stepped over to view the unconscious man with eyes filled with wonder. She had heard of steamtech prosthetics but to be augmented to this degree was incredible and very dangerous to the subject. She was starting to realize just how little she knew of mechanics in spite of all of her accomplishments in the past.

She looked around to find a safe path out of here through the catwalks as she imagined at the rate everything was falling apart there wouldn't be much of here left.