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[b]Words:[/b] 436 (+1)
[b][color=ea590c]Edward Portsmith: Level 9 (22 cells) (2 level ups stored)[/color] [/b][color=ea590c]///////////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (27/90)
[b]Location[/b] Frozen highlands - The Midnight Walk 
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Having blocked the caves from which the flying bugs had been spilling, Edward had fallen back to his fallen gear and retrieved the pal-spheres from holding the four Snoruyo. With them on the battlefield, the dreadnought could create an actual battle line. Behind it, he deployed the Thoroughbred Reindrix behind it (with plenty of space so that its aura would not freeze the front-line).

The Iceberg it sent crashing into the swarm of bugs put a significant dent in the numbers his force was facing, while a Blizzard Spike slamming up into the soft underbelly of the praetorian ‘leading’ their push thoroughly crippled the assault. 

This gave him enough space that he could spare the time to inspect the state of Sandalphon when Mokou dug her out of the tent. At the back of his mind the absence of their elected leader had been a concern that he did not have the time to focus on, but now that her state was revealed he did his best to take command of the situation.

[color=ea590c]”We’ll Get her into the stage coach"[/color] he called up to Mokou, before putting two fingers between his lips and whistling shrilly for attention. The target of this attention was the Sheildrix, which he commanded to come [color=ea590c]”To me!"[/color] with the intent of righting the stagecoach.

In quick order he used his Ravager striker to haul the roof of the coach just a bit upwards, enough that  steel armored heads could be shoved into the gap, and used to shove their transport onto its wheels.

By the time this was done, the situation was stabilized enough for Edward to inspect Sandalphon’s state, something he would do with her resting on one of the stagecoach’s benches if possible. It looked somewhat familiar, and a quick inspection of his journal notes revealed its likely source.

[color=ea590c]”She seems to have contracted a ‘Petrification Disease’ from Krat Zoo’s realm. It shouldn’t have knocked her out however… hmm, unless the solidification made the fall considerably more painful"[/color] he theorized. In the late stages the condition could apparently cause organ failure, but given the woman was still breathing (they could all see it in the cold air) it had presumably not reached that point as of yet.

As a result his recommendation was that of conventional healing, in the hopes that it would stir her to consciousness. As for what could be done about the disease itself, however, he had no suggestions, as the notes they had found were far more interested in the using the Ergo crystals forming on her body as a puppet's power source than how to cure her condition.