Kia tried to suppress the shudders that ran through her. The commlinks were crackling with reports of action just like she had been told they would. It had the air of a storm breaking, she just hoped that she would be still standing when it blew over. She looked around the the aid station, medication and bacta sprays were ready for use though Kia, having worked in trauma centers during her medical training, knew that it wouldn't last long. Over the past few weeks they had ransacked every hospital and first aid kit they could find but there was no way they had enough for what was coming. Ryma, one of her nurses who had been a first responder, gave her a shaky smile. Kia returned what she hoped was a calm confident facade.

The aid station was located in a glacially carved overhang, the theory was that this would make it difficult for Imperial spotters to locate. Kia wasn't exactly clear how a few meters of rock would prevent sensors or fliers from tracking a flow of wounded from the front but it seemed to satisfy the military types. For the thousandth time she wished she were back in her clinic on Corellia but it was a phantom, there was no going back now.

"Medic!" The first in the rank of combat medics, a slim Rodian woman, leaped to her feet and raced into the chilled forest. 

"May the force be with us," Kia whispered.