[I]Ariadne was taken completely by surprise when the conduits overloaded. She immediately drew her Zat'nik'tel and extended it, standing as she did so. She cast about for a target for only a moment, then realized what had happened was not due to enemy fire. She quickly holstered the weapon once more, seeing as she did so the prone, broken body of another Tau'ri man. She rushed to him and knelt raising the healing device. She was feeling drained already from restoring the Tau'ri woman to almost perfect health and her arms ached, but she nonetheless activated the device again. As the light from the small device shone down onto his form, Ariadne saw in her minds eye the injuries he was inflicted with.

The right side of his body was badly burned, his right arm and leg were broken and he was suffering massive internal bleeding. He had a concussion and multiple fractures, as well as a punctured lung. Too much for her to heal. Maybe if she were well rested, there might have been a possibility, but not now. She put all she could into the healing, but all she was able to do was stop his body from expiring right there and then. With that, she relinquished her own body back to Idalia, too exhausted to exert control over her host any more.[/I]

Idalia stood then, retrieving her Staff Weapon from the floor with aching arms. "I am sorry Captain... I cannot do anything more for this man. I hope your Medical staff can save him..." She felt strange. Physically tired, but more than that. Emotionally exhausted. Ariadne's presence was dulled, still strong, but she felt no coherent thought from her symbiote. She could only imagine how Ariadne must have felt if she herself had only received a lesser form of the effect of heavy use of a healing device. She looked up at the captain again, her exhaustion evident on her face. "If you will excuse us? Healing these people has exhausted Ariadne and I... We need to rest."