Seb looked over her aura and the nurse nodded, "The baby is alright... it's aura is a little darker than what would be normal but I don't think it's in any kind of distress."

Seb let out a breath and held Serena against him, he wasn't sure what to do or say... Honestly, he worried that maybe he'd said something wrong before. He knew one thing for certain though, he was going to confront his mother and it wasn't going to be pretty. He brushed Serena's hair from her face, his leg bouncing from his ragged nerves and he let out a sigh as the nurse finished patching Serena up.

"From now on, if you feel like your slipping you need to tell me," Sebastian said, his voice firm but not angry. He understood what it was like to not realize what you were doing till you'd already done it. "You can't lock yourself away and hope it will pass, it doesn't... it gets worse until you let it out... Why do you think Gunner and Anna used to knock me out? You have to talk to me Serena, you can't just keep it all locked up in there..."

~*~

Anna finally had a moment to catch her breath and she heard Thomas speak up, "Casualties?"

"None but Luke's leg is broken," she answered as she glanced back at the man.

Jace's jaw worked, he was fighting the urge to heal because he knew he had to save his strength for Gunner... If the worst came true. Anna rested a hand on her shoulder and Thomas nodded, "We don't know how many more are further in, Jace... can you see anything?"

Jace looked around, grateful for the distraction. "Five... they're spread out in the caves... I'm not really sure about the rest."

She understood what he meant, auras weren't really his thing and he was having to push himself to see them... it was probably getting difficult. 

Thomas glanced at Luke who was being helped up by two others, "David, get Luke out of here... The rest of us will keep going."

As the group moved further in Anna frowned at the quiet... Why wasn't anyone attacking?